CVE-2015-6523 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Portfolio plugin before 1.05 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the instagram-portfolio page in wp-admin/options-general.php

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Portfolio plugin before 1.05 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the instagram-portfolio page in wp-admin/options-general.php

Published Aug 19, 2015

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.18%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Portfolio plugin before 1.05 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the instagram-portfolio page in wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.18% 0.01178

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01178

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	1.18% (0.01178)	66.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.18% (0.01178)	63.46th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.14% (0.00137)	30.21th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.91% (0.02913)	77.28th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.14% (0.00137)	30.99th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.40% (0.00405)	74.57th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.40% (0.00405)	73.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.40% (0.00405)	69.64th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (3)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/104
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1175403/portfolio-by-lisa-westlund
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8108
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/104		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1175403/portfolio-by-lisa-westlund		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8108		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 19, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 19, 2015

Link CVE-2015-6523

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-6523

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-6523