CVE-2016-6897

mediumpriority · attend · 46EPSS 0.288 · 98 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

28.8% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.06.4mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Fsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-352USprimary

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-40288WordPress Core 4.5.3 - Directory Traversal / Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db
auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_directory_traversal_dosWordPress Traversal Directory DoSfunctional · metasploit

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
wordpress wordpress≤ 4.5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-01-18modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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