| Name | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3328-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| wordpress (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4.1.35+dfsg-0+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 4.7.23+dfsg-0+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 5.0.15+dfsg1-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 5.0.21+dfsg1-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.7.8+dfsg1-0+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.1+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.5.2+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - wordpress <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[squeeze] - wordpress <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33357