CVE-2011-5270: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publish_posts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.0.5; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only

Published 2014-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.