| Name | CVE-2013-4340 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2757-1 |
| NVD severity | low (attack range: remote) |
| Debian Bugs | 722537 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress (PTS) | wheezy | 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u10 | fixed |
| wheezy (security) | 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u16 | fixed | |
| jessie | 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u14 | fixed | |
| jessie (security) | 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u15 | fixed | |
| stretch | 4.7.5+dfsg-2 | fixed | |
| stretch (security) | 4.7.5+dfsg-2+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 4.8.2+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | source | (unstable) | 3.6.1+dfsg-1 | low | 722537 | |
| wordpress | source | squeeze | 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb6u1 | low | DSA-2757-1 | |
| wordpress | source | wheezy | 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u1 | low | DSA-2757-1 |
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/25321