CVE-2016-6635 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00289.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Wordpress Subscribe	Wordpress Subscribe

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-633-1	wordpress security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3681-1	wordpress security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3681-2	wordpress regression update
EUVD	EUVD-2016-7540	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8475

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-08-07T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:36:29.074Z

Reserved: 2016-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-6635

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-08-07T16:59:17.113

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-6635

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-352

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