PT-2013-4962
CVE-2013-4340
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Published
2013-09-12
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Updated
2013-10-02
Description by
CVSS 2.0
3.5
LowMetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
WordPress versions prior to 3.6.1
Description
The issue allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified
user ID parameter in the wp-admin/includes/post.php file.Recommendations
For versions prior to 3.6.1, update to version 3.6.1 or later to resolve the issue.
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