CVE-2016-6897

Published: 2017-01-18T21:59Z

Last Modified: 2024-11-21T02:57Z

Source: MITRE CVE List

License: MITRE-CVE-TOS

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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt