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Wordpress: CVE-2019-20043: Improper Privilege Management

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Wordpress: CVE-2019-20043: Improper Privilege Management

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/27/2019
Created
01/07/2020
Added
01/06/2020
Modified
01/23/2023

Description

In in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, authenticated users who do not have the rights to publish a post are able to mark posts as sticky or unsticky via the REST API. For example, the contributor role does not have such rights, but this allowed them to bypass that. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-5_3_1

References

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