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osvGoogleOSV:CVE-2016-6897
HistoryJan 18, 2017 - 9:59 p.m.

CVE-2016-6897

2017-01-1821:59:00
Google
osv.dev
9

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.327

Percentile

97.1%

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.