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password for\npassword protected blog posts. A remote attacker could provide a specially-\ncrafted input that, when processed by the password checking mechanism of\nWordpress would lead to excessive CPU consumption (CVE-2013-2173).\n\nInadequate SSRF protection for HTTP requests where the user can provide a\nURL can allow for attacks against the intranet and other sites. This is a\ncontinuation of work related to CVE-2013-0235, which was specific to SSRF\nin pingback requests and was fixed in 3.5.1 (CVE-2013-2199).\n\nInadequate checking of a user's capabilities could allow them to publish\nposts when their user role should not allow for it; and to assign posts to\nother authors (CVE-2013-2200).\n\nInadequate escaping allowed an administrator to trigger a cross-site\nscripting vulnerability through the uploading of media files and plugins\n(CVE-2013-2201).\n\nThe processing of an oEmbed response is vulnerable to an XXE\n(CVE-2013-2202).\n\nIf the uploads directory is not writable, error message data returned via\nXHR will include a full path to the directory (CVE-2013-2203).\n\nContent Spoofing in the MoxieCode (TinyMCE) MoxiePlayer project\n(CVE-2013-2204).\n\nCross-domain XSS in SWFUpload (CVE-2013-2205).\n","status":"published","published":"2013-07-01T19:19:24Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:22:21.597314894Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:39.121227Z"},{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2173","description":"wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress 3.5.1, when a password-protected post exists, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted value of a certain wp-postpass cookie.","status":"withdrawn","published":"2013-06-21T13:57:00Z","modified":"2025-07-16T08:10:43.428822Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:54:06.854805Z"}]}}