CVE-2013-4340: WordPress

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-admin/includes/post.php in WordPress before 3.6.1 allows remote authenticated users to spoof the authorship of a post by leveraging the Author role and providing a modified user_ID parameter.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.6

Published 2013-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.