CVSS 3.1
4.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVE-2019-20043
Medium (4.3). EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, authenticated users who do not have the rights to publish a post are able to mark posts as sticky or unsticky via the REST API. For example, the contributor role does not have such rights, but this allowed them to bypass that. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- wordpress:wordpress
References
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/46893/trunk
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/commit/1d1d5be7aa94608c04516cac4238e8c22b93c1d9
- https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-g7rg-hchx-c2gw
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/8
- https://wordpress.org/news/2019/12/wordpress-5-3-1-security-and-maintenance-release/