CVE-2015-5731: 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…

PriorityP431medium6.8CVSS 2.0

AVNACMAuNCPIPAP

EPSS

3.85%

89.0th percentile

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.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	wordpress	< wordpress 4.2.4+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	wordpress 4.2.4+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
wordpress	wordpress	<= 4.2.3	—
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.4+dfsg-1	4.2.4+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.4+dfsg-1	4.2.4+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.4+dfsg-1	4.2.4+dfsg-1
wordpress	wordpress	>= 0 < 4.2.4+dfsg-1	4.2.4+dfsg-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv6.8MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.8MEDIUM

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