Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting wordpress package, versions <4.5+dfsg-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363617
- published 7 Aug 2016
- disclosed 7 Aug 2016
Introduced: 7 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-6635 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 4.5+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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the script compression option.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6635
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8475
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6635