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CVE-2012-2402

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2402 describes an access restriction bypass vulnerability in WordPress versions prior to 3.3.2, specifically within the wp-admin/plugins.php component, allowing authenticated site administrators to deactivate network-wide plugins. With a CVSS score of 5.5, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring authentication (Au:S) and having low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts (I:P/A:P). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.5MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0261 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

core.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/20526/branches/3.3/wp-admin/plugins.php
osvdb.org / 81462
secunia.com / advisories/48957
secunia.com / advisories/49138
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/75090
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/75207
wordpress.org / news/2012/04/wordpress-3-3-2
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2470
securityfocus.com / bid/53192