Source: wordpress
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi Kai,
A security issue in wordpress' xml-rpc implementation was 
found[0]:
| WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was 
| found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially 
| crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of 
| any other user on that blog.

Looking at the latest changes on xml-rpc the following 
changesets seem to be relevant:
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6709
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6714

Upstream ticket:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5313

A CVE id is currently pending for this.

For further information:
[0] http://wordpress.org/development/2008/02/wordpress-233/

Kind regards
Nico

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