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CVE-2013-4340
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…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 2.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- FEDORA-2013-16925 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-16855 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-2757 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.6.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/news/2013/09/wordpress-3-6-1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-16895 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4226 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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