Candidate: CVE-2016-6635
PublicDate: 2016-08-07 16:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6635
 http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [8.8 HIGH]

Patches_wordpress:
 upstream: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab
upstream_wordpress: released (4.5+dfsg-1)
precise_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_wordpress: DNE (precise was needs-triage)
trusty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_wordpress: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_wordpress: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_wordpress: DNE
xenial_wordpress: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
yakkety_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
cosmic_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
disco_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
eoan_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
focal_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
groovy_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
hirsute_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
impish_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
jammy_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)
devel_wordpress: not-affected (4.5+dfsg-1)