Bugtraq: Re: Wordpress - Broken Access Control

[Abel Cheung <abelcheung () gmail com>]

On 2007-12-16(Sun) 10:07:29 -0000, otto () ottodestruct com wrote:
> The is_admin() function is not supposed to tell whether a user is an administrator or not, it tells whether the user 
> is looking at one of the administration pages. As such, this function does exactly what it is supposed to do.
>
> As for the rest, there is no flaw. To view a draft, the user must authenticate and have the correct capability set. 
> There is no way to view drafts without being logged in and having that capability set on the user's role level.
>
> This "vulnerability" is non-existent.
Here I confirm the validity of the vulnerability:

Machine: Windows 2000 SP4, Apache 2.2.4, MySQL 5.0.45
Wordpress version tested: 2.2.0, 2.2.3, 2.3.1
Everytime the URL http://localhost/wordpress/index.php/wp-admin/ is
used, and user is NOT logged in. In each wordpress version draft
posts are indeed shown.

And according to wordpress bug report, a patch is applied on
19th to address the problem.

Abel
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