CVE-2016-6635

Name	CVE-2016-6635
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-633-1, DSA-3681-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
wordpress (PTS)	buster	5.0.15+dfsg1-0+deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	5.0.18+dfsg1-0+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	5.7.8+dfsg1-0+deb11u2	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.1+dfsg1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
wordpress	source	wheezy	3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u12	DLA-633-1
wordpress	source	jessie	4.1+dfsg-1+deb8u10	DSA-3681-1
wordpress	source	(unstable)	4.5+dfsg-1

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/9b7a7754133c50b82bd9d976fb5b24094f658aab
Fixed by: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/37143