CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6635

8.8 HIGH Published 2016-08-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-08-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the script compression option.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.4.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness

References