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FKIE_CVE-2016-6897

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-18 21:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:51

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572
	cve@mitre.org	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683
	cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568
	cve@mitre.org	https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html
	cve@mitre.org	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606
	cve@mitre.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	wordpress	wordpress	*

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-18 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:43

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

7 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c8…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2016-08-20 00:00

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