CVE-2016-6896

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…

published January 18, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
38%
Percentile
98.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.38068 · 98.5th percentile
Published
2017-01-18T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JAN 21:00Z
    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…
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