CVE-2016-6897: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 28.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 4.5.5

Published 2017-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.