CVE-2011-1762

A flaw exists in Wordpress related to the 'wp-admin/press-this.php 'script improperly checking user permissions when publishing posts. This may allow a user with 'Contributor-level' privileges to post as if they had 'publish_posts' permission.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2022-04-18

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-276, CWE-284

Affected products

• Wordpress (Wordpress)

References

• https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-3-1-2/