CVE-2012-4422
wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.4.2, when the multisite feature is enabled, does not check for network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed plugin, which might allow remote authenticated users…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.68%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.4.2, when the multisite feature is enabled, does not check for network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed plugin, which might allow remote authenticated users to make unintended plugin changes by leveraging the Administrator role.
- CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.68% probability · 76th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file42Exploit, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file42Exploit, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.