CVE-2016-6897

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6897
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6897.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6897
Downstream
Published
2017-01-18T21:59:00Z
Modified
2026-07-08T12:27:37Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

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
f33932899302ef01910a9785cb65998ecd8a552f
Fixed
8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "4.5.5"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.5.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6897.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
b32fdc08cb4addf9aae7a6d40c4be4c037ba1926
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "4.5.5"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.5.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6897.json"