CVE-2016-6897

43Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 28%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJan 18

1st PoCAug 22

exploitation probability

28%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568 https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683