CVE-2007-1893

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

xmlrpc (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress 2.1.2, and probably earlier, allows remote authenticated users with the contributor role to bypass intended access restrictions and invoke the publish_posts functionality, which can be used to "publish a previously saved post."

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.1.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24751
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1245
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33470
http://secunia.com/advisories/24751
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/

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