vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6897: wordpress -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 18, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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

debian-upgrade-wordpress
Title
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