CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-10148

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2017-01-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-254, CWE-284

Description

The wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.6 makes a get_plugin_data call before checking the update_plugins capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended read-access restrictions via the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.5.5)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References