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CVE-2016-6897
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-18T21:59:00.307 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:51:57.313

Summary

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.

Affected products

wordpress — wordpress

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References

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