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CVE-2016-6635

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the script compression option.

Published

2016-08-07T16:59:17.113

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-352

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 4.4.2	Yes

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5 Release Notes ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 ([email protected])
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab Patch ([email protected])
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8475 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5 Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8475 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)