Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6897
6.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
January 18, 2017
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory