CVE-2019-20043

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…

published December 27, 2019

CVSS
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EPSS
2%
Percentile
84.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02475 · 84.4th percentile
Published
2019-12-27T07:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 07:14Z
    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…
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