CVE-2007-1893: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xmlrpc (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress 2.1.2, and probably earlier, allows remote authenticated users with the contributor role to bypass intended access restrictions and invoke the publish_posts functionality, which can be used to "publish a previously saved post."

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.1.2

Published 2007-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.