Candidate: CVE-2015-5715
PublicDate: 2016-05-22 01:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5715
 https://wordpress.org/news/2015/09/wordpress-4-3-1/
Description:
 The mw_editPost function in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php in the
 XMLRPC subsystem in WordPress before 4.3.1 allows remote authenticated
 users to bypass intended access restrictions, and arrange for a private
 post to be published and sticky, via unspecified vectors.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799140
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Shahar Tal and Netanel Rubin
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N [4.3 MEDIUM]

Patches_wordpress:
 upstream: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9c57f3a4291f2311ae05f22c10eedeb0f69337ab
upstream_wordpress: released (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
precise_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_wordpress: DNE (precise was needs-triage)
trusty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_wordpress: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_wordpress: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_wordpress: DNE
wily_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_wordpress: not-affected (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
yakkety_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wordpress: not-affected (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
cosmic_wordpress: not-affected (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
disco_wordpress: not-affected (4.3.1+dfsg-1)
devel_wordpress: not-affected (4.3.1+dfsg-1)