WordPress Subscriber Role Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2015-5623 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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