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CVE-2016-6897

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CVSS 3.0
6.5 medium
EPSS
29%p98
Published
()
Modified
Description

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.

Vendors
wordpress
Products
wordpress
Ecosystems
WordPress
Weakness
CWE-352
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (28.8%)

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