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CVE-2016-6897

Medium · 6.5

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

28.8%

Published

Jan 18, 2017

CISA due date

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The record

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.6 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of subscribers for /dev/random read operations by leveraging a late call to the check_ajax_referer function, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

Affected packages

Ecosystem Package Introduced Fixed
Debian:11 wordpress 0 4.6.1+dfsg-1
Debian:12 wordpress 0 4.6.1+dfsg-1
Debian:13 wordpress 0 4.6.1+dfsg-1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS wordpress 0 No fix
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS wordpress 0 No fix

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