Access Restriction Bypass Affecting wordpress package, versions <3.8.2+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363459
  • published 10 Apr 2014
  • disclosed 10 Apr 2014

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 3.8.2+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

WordPress before 3.7.2 and 3.8.x before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to publish posts by leveraging the Contributor role, related to wp-admin/includes/post.php and wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

4.3 medium