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Secunia Advisory SA49726

WordPress Security Bypass and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory SA49726
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2012-06-28
Last Update 2012-09-19
   
Popularity 1,756 view
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Software:
WordPress 3.x

Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2012-3384 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-3385 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in WordPress, which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and disclose sensitive information.

1) An unspecified error in the application can be exploited to potentially disclose contents of private or draft posts to authors and contributors.

2) An error in checking user capabilities when handling XMLRPC requests can potentially be exploited to edit posts by users which don't have this capability.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 3.4.1.


Solution
Update to version 3.4.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/06/wordpress-3-4-1/

Other references
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