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WordPress: privilege escalation

Package(s):wordpress CVE #(s):
Created:August 11, 2006 Updated:August 16, 2006
Description: The WordPress developers have confirmed a vulnerability in capability checking for plugins. By exploiting a flaw, a user can circumvent WordPress access restrictions when using plugins. The actual impact depends on the configuration of WordPress and may range from trivial to critical, possibly even the execution of arbitrary PHP code.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200608-19 2006-08-10
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