CVE-2012-4421
wordpress wordpress: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The create_post function in wp-includes/class-wp-atom-server.php in WordPress before 3.4.2 does not perform a capability check, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and publish new posts by leveraging the Contributor role and using the Atom Publishing Protocol (aka AtomPub) feature.
- EPSS
- 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- wordpress:wordpress
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file2
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/4
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4.2
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.1&old=21780&new_path=%2Ftags%2F3.4.2&new=21780#file2