CVE-2015-5715

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The mw_editPost function in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php in the XMLRPC subsystem in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions, and arrange for a private post to be published and sticky, via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

WordPress: through 4.3.0

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76748
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033979
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.3.1
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9c57f3a4291f2311ae05f22c10eedeb0f69337ab
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5715
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8188
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3375
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76748

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