CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6896
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress 4.5.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service or read certain text files via a .. (dot dot) in the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, as demonstrated by /dev/random read operations that deplete the entropy pool.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress 4.5.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683 www.securitytracker.com
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 wpvulndb.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683 www.securitytracker.com
- https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 wpvulndb.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/ www.exploit-db.com