| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-3328-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress (PTS) | buster | 5.0.15+dfsg1-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 5.0.18+dfsg1-0+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.7.8+dfsg1-0+deb11u2 | fixed | |
| bookworm, sid | 6.1.1+dfsg1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | source | squeeze | (not affected) | |||
| wordpress | source | wheezy | (not affected) | |||
| wordpress | source | jessie | 4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2 | DSA-3328-1 | ||
| wordpress | source | (unstable) | 4.2.3+dfsg-1 |
[wheezy] - wordpress <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[squeeze] - wordpress <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33357