CVE-2011-5270

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publish_posts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.0.5; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.6
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17710

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