WordPress Core < 4.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2016-6897
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published August 16, 2016
Last Updated January 22, 2024
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.6
Patched Version
  • 4.6
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