Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2015-5731 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/7 CVE
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4 CVEPatchVendor Advisory
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33542 CVE
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33543 CVE
https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/ CVEPatchVendor Advisory

see all 18 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wordpress wordpress
<= 4.2.3

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-5731
NVD Published Date:
Nov 9, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-5731 Details - Not Deferred