CVE-2012-4422: WordPress

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.4.2, when the multisite feature is enabled, does not check for network-administrator privileges before performing a network-wide activation of an installed plugin, which might allow remote authenticated users to make unintended plugin changes by leveraging the Administrator role.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.4.1; 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.