CVE-2011-1762

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 18, 2022
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Apr 19, 2011

Description

A flaw exists in Wordpress related to the 'wp-admin/press-this.php 'script improperly checking user permissions when publishing posts. This may allow a user with 'Contributor-level' privileges to post as if they had 'publish_posts' permission.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected Products

Product	Versions
wordpressn/a	wordpress before 3.0.6 and 3.1.2Affected

References

https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-3-1-2/

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