7.5

CVE-2015-2293: wordpress wordpress-seo Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Modified
Published 17-03-2015Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-2293 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wordpress wordpress-seo. EPSS estimates a 1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded. Fixed in 1.5.7.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
1.52%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits3reference

Timeline

  1. 17-03-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of certain users for requests that conduct SQL injection attacks via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.52%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

74%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.52% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

3 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (packetstormsecurity.com)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (seclists.org)

    Maturity: unknown

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (securitytracker.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress1 product
  • wordpress-seo≤ 1.5.6 (fixed in 1.5.7) | ≥ 1.6, ≤ 1.6.3 (fixed in 1.5.7) | ≥ 1.7, ≤ 1.7.3.3 (fixed in 1.5.7)
Yoast1 product
  • wordpress_seo≤ 1.5.6 | 1.6.0 | 1.6.1 | 1.6.2 | 1.6.3 | 1.7.1 | 1.7.2 | 1.7.3 | 1.7.3.1 | 1.7.3.2 | 1.7.3.3

2 vendors · 2 products

References

7 links