VDB
CVE-2016-6897
CVE-2016-6897
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 30.26% · 96.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
30.26%
96.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | wordpress | 0, 4.3+dfsg-1, 4.3.1+dfsg-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL exploited: CVE-2016-6897 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2016-6897 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2016-6897 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2016-6897 (circl-sighting)
- [oss-security] 20160820 Path traversal vulnerability in WordPress Core Ajax handlers (circl)
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568 (circl)
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 (circl)
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html (circl)
- 1036683 (circl)
- 92572 (circl)
…and 3 more exploits
Timeline
- Aug 21, 2016 PoC Published
- Aug 22, 2016 PoC Published
- Jan 18, 2017 CVE Published
- May 29, 2018 PoC Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6897 third-party-advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/347 third-party-advisory
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6897 third-party-advisory