VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2013-4340
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.
LOW 3.5EPSS 2.63%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.63%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 3.5 LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.63% probability · 85th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-264
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1Vendor Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1Vendor Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321Exploit, Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.