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HistoryJan 18, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2016-6897

2017-01-1800:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
18

CVSS2

5.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu16.04noarchwordpress< anyUNKNOWN

CVSS2

5.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.327

Percentile

97.1%