CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-20043

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2019-12-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

In in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, authenticated users who do not have the rights to publish a post are able to mark posts as sticky or unsticky via the REST API. For example, the contributor role does not have such rights, but this allowed them to bypass that. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (>= 3.7 < 5.3.1) • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References