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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-18T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:43:38.559Z

Reserved: 2016-08-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6897

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-18T21:59:00.307

Modified: 2017-09-03T01:29:11.797

Link: CVE-2016-6897

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