PT-2015-6990

CVE-2015-5623

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Published

2015-07-27

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Updated

2017-09-21

Description by

CVSS 2.0
4.0
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.2.3
Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions and create drafts by leveraging the Subscriber role. This can be achieved by sending a post-quickdraft-save action to the "wp-admin/post.php" endpoint.
Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2.3, update to version 4.2.3 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Related identifiers
DSA-3328-1
DSA-3328-2
MGASA-2015-0290
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