9.6

CVE-2015-5731: wordpress Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS: 9.6v3.1CriticalModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2015-5731
Published 09-11-2015Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5731 is a critical (CVSS 9.6) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 3.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.5% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.10.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.6/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
3.36%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4
DLA-294-1DSA-3332-1DSA-3383-1MGASA-2015-0309

Timeline

  1. 09-11-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.36%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.36% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.36%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress< 3.7 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.9 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.9 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 3.9, ≤ 3.9.7 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 4.0, ≤ 4.0.6 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 4.1, ≤ 4.1.6 (fixed in 3.7.10) | ≥ 4.2, ≤ 4.2.3 (fixed in 3.7.10)
  • wordpress≤ 4.2.3
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 4.2.4+dfsg-1

2 vendors · 3 products

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