CVE-2010-5106

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The XML-RPC remote publishing interface in xmlrpc.php in WordPress before 3.0.3 does not properly check capabilities, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and publish, edit, or delete posts, by leveraging the Author or Contributor role.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.0.2; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+63)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.3
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16803
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/14/10
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.3
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16803
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/14/10

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