CVE-2016-6897

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.

Date published : 2017-01-18

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568