CVE-2016-6897

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.

We have discovered 337,226 live websites that are affected by CVE-2016-6897.

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Affected Software

Product  WordPress
Category Content Management System
Vulnerable Domains337,226 live websites (4.22% of WordPress install base)
Vulnerable Versions
  • from 0 through 4.6
Vulnerable Versions Count846 versions ( 57% of all versions)



Details

  • Published - Jan 18, 2017
  • Updated - Aug 6, 2024

Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using CVE-2016-6897
United States65,890 websites


Italy47,496 websites
Japan28,751 websites
Germany23,665 websites
Russia16,540 websites
France14,593 websites
GB13,404 websites
Netherlands10,545 websites
Kazakhstan7,049 websites
Spain6,629 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using CVE-2016-6897
.com121,832 websites
.it31,710 websites
.ru13,772 websites
.org12,724 websites
.de12,494 websites
.net10,792 websites
.nl8,462 websites
.co.uk7,690 websites
.jp6,942 websites
.fr6,088 websites

Vulnerable Versions

Vulnerable versions are highlighted in red

Websites affected by CVE-2016-6897

Top websites that are affected by CVE-2016-6897. Please click on the "Contact us" link to get more information.
DomainCountryRankContacts
*******.com United States*,***
*****.com United States*,***
********.com United States*,***
************.org United States*,***
******.com France*,***
*******.org United States*,***
*********.io Netherlands*,***
*******.com United States*,***
********.eu Austria*,***
*************.org United States*,***
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FAQ

A total of 337,226 websites have been identified as vulnerable to CVE-2016-6897, based on global website indexing conducted by WebTechSurvey.
The WordPress is affected by the CVE-2016-6897 vulnerability.
WordPress versions up to and including 4.6 are vulnerable to CVE-2016-6897.