First published: Wed Jan 18 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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WordPress WordPress | <=4.5.5 |
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