VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2013-2200
WordPress before 3.5.2 does not properly check the capabilities of roles, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended restrictions on publishing and authorship reassignment via unspecified vectors.
MEDIUM 4.0EPSS 1.76%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.76%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
WordPress before 3.5.2 does not properly check the capabilities of roles, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended restrictions on publishing and authorship reassignment via unspecified vectors.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.76% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.