CVE-2011-5270

wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publish_posts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2014-01-21

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Wordpress (Wordpress)

References

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710