CVE-2013-4340

N/A Unknown

Published: September 12, 2013 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

wp-admin/includes/post.php in WordPress before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user_ID parameter.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116828.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/116832.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/117118.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2757

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1