CVE-2016-6635

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6635
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6635.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6635
Downstream
Published
2016-08-07T16:59:17Z
Modified
2026-10-24T10:47:34Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the script compression option.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
Fixed
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.4.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range": [
                {
                    "fixed": "9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab"
                }
            ],
            "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.4.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6635.json"

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last Affected
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.4.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.4.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6635.json"