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WordPress Vulnerabilities

WordPress <= 5.0 - Authenticated Post Type Bypass

Description

According to WordPress:

"Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies discovered that authors could create posts of unauthorized post types with specially crafted input."

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.28
3.9
Fixed in version 3.9.26
3.9.1
Fixed in version 3.9.26
3.7
Fixed in version 3.7.28
3.8.2
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.8.3
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.9.2
Fixed in version 3.9.26
4.0
Fixed in version 4.0.25

References

CVE
CVE-2018-20152
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/
URL
https://blog.ripstech.com/2018/wordpress-post-type-privilege-escalation/

Classification

Type

BYPASS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

RIPS Technologies (Simon Scannell)

Submitter

Ryan Dewhurst

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
999dba5a-82fb-4717-89c3-6ed723cc7e45

Timeline

Publicly Published

2018-12-13 (about 3 years ago)

Added

2018-12-13 (about 3 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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