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CVE-2014-0165

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

WordPress before 3.7.2 and 3.8.x before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to publish posts by leveraging the Contributor role, related to wp-admin/includes/post.php and wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 3.7.1; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+91)

References

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7.2
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8.2
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27976
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2901
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085866
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7.2
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8.2
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/27976
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2901
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085866

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