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Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting wordpress package, versions <4.6.1+dfsg-1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-WORDPRESS-1563715
  • published18 Jan 2017
  • disclosed18 Jan 2017
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Introduced: 18 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-6897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 wordpress to version 4.6.1+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.