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

2026-10-24T10:47:34Z

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

Last Affected

f33932899302ef01910a9785cb65998ecd8a552f

Fixed

8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "4.5.5"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        }
    ]
}

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