CVE-2016-6897 (GCVE-0-2016-6897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-18 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:43
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-08-20 00:00
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