6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This vulnerability is in wp-admin/post.php. It allows an attacker to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests which lock a post. And then an attacker consequently cause a denial of service via a get-post-lock action.
Update the plugin.