CVE-2015-5623

published 2015-08-03

CVE-2015-5623: WordPress before 4.2.3 does not properly verify the edit_posts capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and…

Priority P4 27 medium 4 CVSS 2.0

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

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

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 4.2.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 4.2.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 4.2.2	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.3+dfsg-1	4.2.3+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.3+dfsg-1	4.2.3+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.3+dfsg-1	4.2.3+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.3+dfsg-1	4.2.3+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv 4.0 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.0 MEDIUM

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