CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-5270
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-01-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publish_posts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.0.5)
• wordpress wordpress 3.0
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.3
• wordpress wordpress 3.0.4
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6 Vendor Advisory
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710 Exploit, Patch
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6 Vendor Advisory
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710 Exploit, Patch