CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1762

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-04-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-04-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-276, CWE-284

Description

A flaw exists in Wordpress related to the 'wp-admin/press-this.php 'script improperly checking user permissions when publishing posts. This may allow a user with 'Contributor-level' privileges to post as if they had 'publish_posts' permission.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (< 3.0.6) • wordpress wordpress (>= 3.1 < 3.1.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References