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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 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.

Severity
Medium 6.5
Published
18 Jan 2017
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
17 Oct 2026
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
WordPressWordPress core · cpe:a:wordpress:wordpress
  • Every version up to 4.5.5

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6897
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6897