Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5623

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-03 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:59:02
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.