CVE-2016-6635

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.

References

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8475

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3