CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5623
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-08-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284
Description
WordPress before 4.2.3 does not properly verify the edit_posts capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and create drafts by leveraging the Subscriber role, as demonstrated by a post-quickdraft-save action to wp-admin/post.php.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.2.2)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037 www.securitytracker.com
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33357 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111 wpvulndb.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037 www.securitytracker.com
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33357 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111 wpvulndb.com