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CVEPublishedCVSSShadowTrackr CVSSSummary
CVE:
CVE-2016-6897
Published
2017-01-18
CVSS:
6.5
ShadowTrackr CVSS:
5.9
Summary:
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.