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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-08-03T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:59:02.704Z

Reserved: 2015-07-23T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-5623

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-08-03T14:59:02.633

Modified: 2017-09-21T01:29:13.133

Link: CVE-2015-5623

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