CVE-2016-6897

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…

published January 18, 2017

CVSS

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EPSS

29%

Percentile

98.1

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.28820 · 98.1th percentile
Published: 2017-01-18T21:00Z

EPSS history

Timeline

18 JAN 21:00Z
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…
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