Vulnerabilities > Wordpress > Wordpress > 4.1.17

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2015-08-03 CVE-2015-5623 Improper Access Control vulnerability in multiple products
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.
network
low complexity
wordpress debian CWE-284
4.0
2015-08-03 CVE-2015-5622 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in multiple products
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 4.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by leveraging the Author or Contributor role to place a crafted shortcode inside an HTML element, related to wp-includes/kses.php and wp-includes/shortcodes.php.
3.5
2015-08-03 CVE-2015-3440 Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in multiple products
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type.
4.3