Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting wordpress package, versions <4.5+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363617
  • published7 Aug 2016
  • disclosed7 Aug 2016

Introduced: 7 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6635  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.