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CVE-2016-6897

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress bef

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1 on Exploit-DB, 1 Metasploit module

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-40288

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 9

securityfocus.com

securitytracker.com

Exploit-DB

openwall.com

sumofpwn.nl

GitHub · WordPress/WordPress

wpvulndb.com

GitHub · rapid7/metasploit-framework