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WordPress: 3.0.3 Critical: Privilege Escalation in Remote Publishing

Calendar Dec 10, 2010 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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security advisory critical software update privilege escalation WordPress remote publishing
The WordPress development team has released version 3.0.3 of the popular open source blogging and publishing platform, a security update for the 3.0.x branch of WordPress. According to the developers, the update addresses a privilege escalation issue in the remote publishing interface that, under certain circumstances, could have allowed Author and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish or delete posts. Reportedly, the issue only affects sites that have remote publishing enabled

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