CVE-2013-4340

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.

How to fix CVE-2013-4340

To remediate CVE-2013-4340, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Debian/wordpress—upgrade to 3.6.1+dfsg-1 or later

Is CVE-2013-4340 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 3.6.1+dfsg-1

References (1)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4340