Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting wordpress package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-WORDPRESS-363616
  • 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?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 wordpress.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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.