CVE-2016-6897

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.

CVSS v3.0

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

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

28.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2017-01-18

Updated

2024-08-06

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2016/CVE-2016-6897-wordpress-d6…

Metasploit modules (1)

• rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_directory_tr…

ExploitDB entries (1)

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-6896
• CVE-2016-6909
• CVE-2016-6855
• CVE-2016-6913
• CVE-2016-6854
• CVE-2016-6914