{"id":"CVE-2016-6897","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:52:56.088637Z","published":"2017-01-18T21:59:00.307Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"f33932899302ef01910a9785cb65998ecd8a552f"},{"fixed":"8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"4.5.5"}]}}],"versions":["4.5.5"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6897.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}