PT-2014-2187 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2014-01-21 · Updated 2014-01-21 · CVE-2011-5270

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 3.0.6

Description The issue concerns a capability requirement not being enforced in a specific PHP file, allowing remote authenticated users with the Contributor role to perform publish actions.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.0.6, update to version 3.0.6 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-5270

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 7

• 🔥 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-5270 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-5270 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-5270 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-5270 · Vendor Advisory
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-5270 · Note