CVE-2015-5731

Publication date 9 November 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
wordpress	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
wordpress	Upstream: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33542 Upstream: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33543

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5731