CVE-2011-5270

Published: 21 January 2014

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.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
wordpress Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	lucid	Ignored (end of life)
	precise	Not vulnerable
	quantal	Not vulnerable
	raring	Not vulnerable
	saucy	Not vulnerable
	upstream	Released (3.0.6)

References

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-5270
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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