CVE-2016-6897
- 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
- 2017-01-18T21:59:00.307Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T12:27:37.870291Z
- 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
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568
Affected packages
Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedFixed
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "4.5.5" } ], "source": [ "CPE_RANGE", "REFERENCES" ] }
Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "4.5.5" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE" }