CVE-2016-6897

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-352

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 18, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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