CVE-2013-4340
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-09-12 10:00Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 16:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-06-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d8a97e684b166ab34e83dd7c82c3c480aaf33caa0112426e4628606dc132d3d1
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2013-16925http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html
- core.trac.wordpress.orghttp://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2013-16855http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-2757http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757
- codex.wordpress.orghttp://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1
- wordpress.orghttp://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2013-16895http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wordpress Fixed in 3.6.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wordpress Fixed in 3.6.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wordpress Fixed in 3.6.1+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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