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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2016-6635

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2016-6635 CWE-352 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities