CVE-2016-6635 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Wordpress

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery7 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 47.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
WordpressDebian Wordpress
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/wordpress< wordpress 4.5+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianwordpress/wordpress< 4.5+dfsg-1+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-g94h-w5p9-mvxc: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-6635: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions↗2016-08-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2016-6635: wordpress - Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_te...↗2016
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

2
Qualys
Hackers Are Having a Field Day with Stolen Credentials↗2017-01-10
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Qualys
Hackers Are Having a Field Day with Stolen Credentials | Qualys↗2017-01-10
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4029 CVE-2016-6634 CVE-2016-6635 wordpress: 4.5 release security fixes↗2016-08-08
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