CVE-2015-5623
Published Aug 3, 2015
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-284
Configurations
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