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CVE-2016-6897

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Date: January 18, 2017

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.

Language: PHP

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Related Resources (11)

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6897
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1
https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6897
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6897
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6897

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CWE-352

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CVSS v3

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE
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