CVE-2016-6897

MEDIUM

Wordpress < 4.5.5 - CSRF

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Yorick Koster · textwebappsphp

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (7)

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683

[Third Party Advisory] https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606

[Patch] https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568

[Vendor Advisory] https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.3026

EPSS Percentile 96.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-352

Status published

Affected Products (2)

wordpress/wordpress < 4.5.5

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Jan 18, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026