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CVE-2013-4340

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Date: September 12, 2013

wp-admin/includes/post.php in WordPress before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user_ID parameter.

Language: PHP

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Related Resources (10)

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4340
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4340
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-4340

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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