CVE-2010-5106: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XML-RPC remote publishing interface in xmlrpc.php in WordPress before 3.0.3 does not properly check capabilities, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and publish, edit, or delete posts, by leveraging the Author or Contributor role.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.0.2; version 0.71 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2012-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.