CVE-2016-6897

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the wpajaxupdateplugin 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 checkajaxreferer...

CVE-2016-6897

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the wpajaxupdateplugin 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 checkajaxreferer...

CVE-2016-6897

CVE-2016-6897 describes a CSRF vulnerability in WordPress up to version 4.5.x affecting the wp_ajax_update_plugin handler in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php. The issue arises from a late check_ajax_referer call, enabling remote attackers to hijack subscribers’ authentication for /dev/random re...

CVE-2016-6897

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the wpajaxupdateplugin 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 checkajaxreferer...

WordPress 4.5.3 - Directory Traversal Denial of Service

WordPress 4.5.3 - Directory Traversal Denial of Service Path traversal vulnerability in WordPress Core Ajax handlers Abstract A path traversal vulnerability was found in the Core Ajax handlers of the WordPress Admin API. This issue can potentially be used by an authenticated user Subscriber to...

CVE-2016-6897

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2016-08-22 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288 2018-05-29 15:50:33+00:00| seen| https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/wordpressdirectorytraversaldos.rb 2025-02-06...

WordPress Core 4.5.3 - Directory Traversal / Denial of Service

Path traversal vulnerability in WordPress Core Ajax handlers Abstract A path traversal vulnerability was found in the Core Ajax handlers of the WordPress Admin API. This issue can potentially be used by an authenticated user Subscriber to create a denial of service condition of an affected...