CVE-2016-6635: CSRF

First published: Sun Aug 07 2016(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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