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CVE-2015-5623

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-08-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• WordPress: through 4.2.2

References

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033037
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33357
• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/07/wordpress-4-2-3/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/23/18
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3328
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76011

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