CVE-2016-6897
high-risk
Published 2017-01-18
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.
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30.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 70% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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1 public exploit available
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Patch status unknown
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6
CVSS 6.5/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (1)
Affected Vendors
References (14)
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/ 100
high-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
22/34 · High
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal