CVE-2013-4340
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.6.1+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.6.1+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.6.1+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.6.1+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.6.1+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | {"endIncluding":"3.6"} | |
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4340
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.