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 administrators for requests that lock a post, and consequently cause a denial of service (editing blockage), via a get-post-lock action.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2015-11-09
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Affected products
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/7
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76160
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033178
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33542
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33543
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/
