6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-6635

Published: 07/08/2016 Updated: 04/11/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 606
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

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

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #837090 wordpress: CVE-2016-6896 CVE-2016-6897 Package: src:wordpress; Maintainer for src:wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 17:39:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, upstream Found in version wordpres ...
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote attackers to compromise a site via cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, path traversal, or bypass restrictions For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 41+dfsg-1+deb8u10 We recommend that you upg ...