CVE-2015-5731 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Wordpress

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
14.8%
top 5.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedNov 9
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/post.php in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that lock a post, and consequently cause a denial of service (editing blockage), via a get-post-lock action.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.2.4+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.2.4+dfsg-1+3

Patches

Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗Patch: wordpress.org ↗Patch: codex.wordpress.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2x9x-8f2w-9hwc: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/post↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-5731: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/post↗2015-11-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2015-5731: wordpress - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/post.php in WordPres...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-2213 CVE-2015-5730 CVE-2015-5731 CVE-2015-5732 CVE-2015-5733 CVE-2015-5734 wordpress: cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection↗2015-08-05
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