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| Vulnerability ID | VCID-ke32-qerd-c7dm |
| Aliases |
CVE-2019-20043
|
| Summary | 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. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 4.5 |
| Risk | 2.2 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| CWE-269 | Improper Privilege Management |
| Exploitability (E) | Access Vector (AV) | Access Complexity (AC) | Authentication (Au) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
high functional unproven proof_of_concept not_defined |
local adjacent_network network |
high medium low |
multiple single none |
none partial complete |
none partial complete |
none partial complete |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
| Percentile | 0.78707 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01276 |
| Published At | July 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m. |
| Date | Actor | Action | Source | VulnerableCode Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-31T10:06:37.057043+00:00 | NVD Importer | Import | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20043 | 37.0.0 |