Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting wordpress package, versions <4.2.4+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-362603
  • published9 Nov 2015
  • disclosed9 Nov 2015

Introduced: 9 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-5731  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 4.2.4+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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