PT-2013-4962 · WordPress · Wordpress

Tom Van Goethem · Published 2013-09-12 · Updated 2013-10-02 · CVE-2013-4340

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 3.6.1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user ID parameter in the wp-admin/includes/post.php file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.6.1, update to version 3.6.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4340

DSA-2757-1

MGASA-2013-0285

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 18

• 🔥 http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321 · Exploit
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4340 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0285.html · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4340 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4340 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4340 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4340 · Vendor Advisory
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0285 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4340 · Vendor Advisory