CVE-2015-5623
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.7%
exploitation probability
7.7%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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 products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33357https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037