CVE-2015-5623

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.

Risk Information

Base Score
4.3
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
48.368

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Update wordpress 4.2.2 to latest versionWindows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234