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CVE-2016-6897

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 28.26% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-18 · Last synced 2026-08-04

Field Assessment

AI analysis pending.

Exhibit — Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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External Security References
exploit-db.com ↗

Note: these links are listed for security research and verification purposes only.

CVE
CVE-2016-6897
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
28.26%
WordPress

Original Filing — NVD Description

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.