CVE-2016-6897

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
Related
Published
2017-01-18T21:59:00Z
Modified
2025-01-15T00:20:24Z
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 wpajaxupdateplugin 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 checkajax_referer function, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

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
Fixed
Fixed
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected