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Wordpress: CVE-2015-5715: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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Wordpress: CVE-2015-5715: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/16/2017
Modified
05/23/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_3_1

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