CVE-2013-4340

WordPress < 3.6.1 - Authenticated Post Authorship Spoofing via user_ID Parameter

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html

Exploit, Patch x_refsource_confirm

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

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

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

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0098

EPSS Percentile 77.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (1)

wordpress/wordpress < 3.6

Published Sep 12, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026