CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6897
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
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 configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.5.5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683 www.securitytracker.com
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568 github.com
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html sumofpwn.nl
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 wpvulndb.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683 www.securitytracker.com
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568 github.com
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html sumofpwn.nl
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 wpvulndb.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/ www.exploit-db.com