PT-2012-1348 · WordPress · Wordpress

Henri Salo · Published 2012-09-14 · Updated 2012-09-17 · CVE-2010-5106

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.0.3

Description The issue concerns the XML-RPC remote publishing interface in WordPress, which fails to properly check user capabilities. This allows remote authenticated users with the Author or Contributor role to bypass intended access restrictions. As a result, they can publish, edit, or delete posts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.3, update to version 3.0.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-5106

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 8

• 🔥 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16803 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-5106 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-5106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-5106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-5106 · Vendor Advisory
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/14/10 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-5106 · Note