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CVE-2013-4340

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
12/09/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.50 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
3.50
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.6 (including)

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