PT-2012-5392 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2012-09-14 · Updated 2012-09-17 · CVE-2012-4422

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.5

Low

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/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 allows remote authenticated users to make unintended plugin changes by leveraging the Administrator role, due to insufficient privilege checks in the multisite feature. This occurs because wp-admin/plugins.php does not verify network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed plugin.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.4.2, update to version 3.4.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4422

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#file42 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4422 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4422 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4422 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4422 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4 · Note
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4422 · Note