CVE-2019-20043

In in wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php in WordPress 3.7 to 5.3.0, authenticated users who do not have the rights to publish a post are able to mark posts as sticky or unsticky via the REST API. For example, the contributor role does not have such rights, but this allowed them to bypass that. This has been patched in WordPress 5.3.1, along with all the previous WordPress versions from 3.7 to 5.3 via a minor release.

CVSS v3.1

4.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

2.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 83th percentile

Nuclei

low

Published

2019-12-27

Updated

2024-08-05

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2019/CVE-2019-20043-wordpress-5…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-20042
• CVE-2019-20047
• CVE-2019-20041
• CVE-2019-20048
• CVE-2019-20024
• CVE-2019-20049