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CVE-2013-2200

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

WordPress before 3.5.2 does not properly check the capabilities of roles, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended restrictions on publishing and authorship reassignment via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 3.5.1; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+70)

References

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
• http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
• http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784

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