A flaw exists in Wordpress related to the 'wp-admin/press-this.php 'script improperly checking user permissions when publishing posts.

Published 4 y ago 2022-04-18 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-16 · JSON

CVSS

6.5

v3.1 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.7%

percentile 55%

Public exploits

none known

A flaw exists in Wordpress related to the 'wp-admin/press-this.php 'script improperly checking user permissions when publishing posts. This may allow a user with 'Contributor-level' privileges to post as if they had 'publish_posts' permission.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.73% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`
NVD	2.0	4.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected products

n/a wordpress

Classification

Weakness

CWE-284 Improper Access Control
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Technology feeds

WordPress (RSS, critical only)

References

wordpress.org /support/wordpress-version/version-3-1-2/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2011-1762
NVD: CVE-2011-1762

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