CVE-2013-4340

Severity

35%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

48%

wp-admin/includes/post.php in WordPress before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user_ID parameter.

wp-admin/includes/post.php in WordPress before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user_ID parameter.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-09-12 13:30:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-10-02 04:29:00

Affected Software

WordPress

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1

Vendor Advisory

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321

Exploit, Patch

FEDORA-2013-16855

FEDORA-2013-16925

FEDORA-2013-16895

http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/

Patch, Vendor Advisory

DSA-2757

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