CVE-2016-6897
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-18 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:43
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
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.
References
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