cve/2015/CVE-2015-5623.md

CVE-2015-5623

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8111

Github

• https://github.com/AGENTGOOBER/CyberSecurityWeek7
• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/Afetter618/WordPress-PenTest
• https://github.com/JamesNornand/CodePathweek7
• https://github.com/Japluas93/WordPress-Exploits-Project
• https://github.com/Laugslander/codepath-cybersecurity-week-7
• https://github.com/SLyubar/codepath_Unit8
• https://github.com/SofCora/pentesting_project_sofcora
• https://github.com/ahmedj98/Pentesting-Unit-7
• https://github.com/and-aleksandrov/wordpress
• https://github.com/choyuansu/Week-7-Project
• https://github.com/christiancastro1/Codepath-Week-7-8-Assignement
• https://github.com/greenteas/week7-wp
• https://github.com/himkwan01/WordPress_Pentesting
• https://github.com/hiraali34/codepath_homework
• https://github.com/jas5mg/Code-Path-Week7
• https://github.com/lihaojin/WordPress-Pentesting
• https://github.com/lqiu1127/Codepath-wordpress-exploits
• https://github.com/mmehrayin/cybersecurity-week7
• https://github.com/syang1216/Wordpress