CVE-2011-5270

MediumCVSS 4.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6Vendor Advisory
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710Exploit, Patch
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6Vendor Advisory
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710Exploit, Patch

Timeline

Published: Jan 21, 2014
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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