WordPress <= 4.5.2 is vulnerable to Session Hijacking

Patch priority: low
Resolve by 23 July, 2016 Low priority
4.3
Medium severity CVSS 3.1 score

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An unknown person discovered and reported this Session Hijacking vulnerability in WordPress. This could allow a malicious actor to hijack a session of a higher privileged user. Once the session is hijacked, the malicious actor can gain full control of the website. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.5.3.

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