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Wordpress: CVE-2016-6897: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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Wordpress: CVE-2016-6897: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/16/2017
Modified
05/23/2019

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(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_6

References

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