PT-2012-5391 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2012-09-14 · Updated 2012-09-17 · CVE-2012-4421

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.4.2

Description The issue concerns the create post function in WordPress, which fails to perform a capability check. This allows remote authenticated users with the Contributor role to bypass access restrictions and publish new posts using the Atom Publishing Protocol feature.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.4.2, update to version 3.4.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the Contributor role's access to the Atom Publishing Protocol feature until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4421

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 8

• 🔥 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file2 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4421 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4421 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4421 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4421 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4421 · Note
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2 · Note