Bug 1085866 (CVE-2014-0165) - CVE-2014-0165 wordpress: privilege escalation issue allowing contributors to publish posts
Summary: CVE-2014-0165 wordpress: privilege escalation issue allowing contributors to ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-0165
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1085861 1085862
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-09 14:27 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: wordpress 3.8.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:32:22 UTC
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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.
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