CVE-2013-2200: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WordPress before 3.5.2 does not properly check the capabilities of roles, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended restrictions on publishing and authorship reassignment via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.5.1; version 0.71 only; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.1.1 only; …

Published 2013-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.