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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2015-5731

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2015-5731 CWE-352

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities