CVE-2011-1762 (GCVE-0-2011-1762)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-18 16:20
Modified
2024-08-06 22:37
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a wordpress Version: wordpress before 3.0.6 and 3.1.2
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