vulnerability

Wordpress: CVE-2016-6635: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 7, 2016
Added
May 16, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

wordpress-upgrade-4_5_0
Title
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