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Wordpress: CVE-2016-6897: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Jan 18, 2017

Added

May 16, 2017

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

wordpress-upgrade-4_6

References

CVE-2016-6897
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-6897
CWE-352
EUVD-EUVD-2016-7782
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-7782

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