CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4421
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-09-14
- 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
The create_post function in wp-includes/class-wp-atom-server.php in WordPress before 3.4.2 does not perform a capability check, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and publish new posts by leveraging the Contributor role and using the Atom Publishing Protocol (aka AtomPub) feature.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.4.1)
• wordpress wordpress 0.71
• wordpress wordpress 1.0
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.4
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.9
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.11
• wordpress wordpress 2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.7.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.5.1
… and 25 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2 codex.wordpress.org
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file2 Exploit, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4 openwall.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2 codex.wordpress.org
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file2 Exploit, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4 openwall.com