cvelist/2016/6xxx/CVE-2016-6897.json

{
    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org",
        "ID": "CVE-2016-6897",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "n/a",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "n/a"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "vendor_name": "n/a"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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."
            }
        ]
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "n/a"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "name": "92572",
                "refsource": "BID",
                "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92572"
            },
            {
                "name": "1036683",
                "refsource": "SECTRACK",
                "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683"
            },
            {
                "name": "40288",
                "refsource": "EXPLOIT-DB",
                "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/"
            },
            {
                "name": "[oss-security] 20160820 Path traversal vulnerability in WordPress Core Ajax handlers",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568",
                "refsource": "CONFIRM",
                "url": "https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/8c82515ab62b88fb32d01c9778f0204b296f3568"
            },
            {
                "name": "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606",
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606"
            }
        ]
    }
}