CVE-2016-6897

medium
Published 2017-01-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6897

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.6.1+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.6.1+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.6.1+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed4.6.1+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.6.1+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"4.5.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.