Bug 1085866 (CVE-2014-0165)

Summary:	CVE-2014-0165 wordpress: privilege escalation issue allowing contributors to publish posts
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	fedora, gwync
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	wordpress 3.8.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1085861, 1085862
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-04-09 14:27:16 UTC

WordPress 3.8.2 has been released and fixes the following issue:

"It also contains a fix to prevent a user with the Contributor role from improperly publishing posts. Reported by edik."

"Privilege escalation: prevent contributors from publishing posts. CVE-2014-0165."

References:

http://wordpress.org/news/2014/04/wordpress-3-8-2/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8.2

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-04-09 14:30:44 UTC

Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1085861]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1085862]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-04-15 15:49:15 UTC

wordpress-3.8.2-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-04-24 07:28:21 UTC

wordpress-3.8.3-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-05-03 15:27:48 UTC

wordpress-3.8.3-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-05-03 15:29:43 UTC

wordpress-3.8.3-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:32:22 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.