Vulnerability in Wordpress

CVE-2013-4340

wp-admin/includes/post.php in WordPress before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user_ID parameter.

EPSS: 0.026 (83.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-4340?
CVE-2013-4340 is a vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under CWE-264. Published 2013-09-12.
Is CVE-2013-4340 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.