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CVE-2015-5731
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/post.php in WordPress before 4.2.4 allows remote attackers to hijack the…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 3.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 76160 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150804 Re: CVE request: WordPress 4.2.3 and earlier multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1033178 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33543 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3332 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3383 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33542 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5677 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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