CVE-2015-5731 Information

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.

Reference

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/7 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3383 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76160 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033178 https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2.4 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33542 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/33543 https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/