Security advisory

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  "id": "47f92c2d622d6191942016d9cf6d9e8844164c9ef8dd397801429086af34f7db",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6897",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-6897",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6897",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-6897",
      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress",
              "type": "GIT",
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                {
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                },
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                },
                {
                  "fixed": "8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568"
                }
              ],
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
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                      },
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                        "last_affected": "4.5.5"
                      }
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                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.5.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6897.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop",
              "type": "GIT",
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                {
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                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "b32fdc08cb4addf9aae7a6d40c4be4c037ba1926"
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              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
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                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.5.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "4.5.5"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6897.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:34.339425443Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/",
        "https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html",
        "https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6897",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441330,
  "published_at": "2017-01-18T21:59:00.307+00:00"
}