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CVE-2016-6896

PoC —
CVSS 3.0
7.1 high
EPSS
38%p98
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
wordpress
Products
wordpress
Ecosystems
WordPress
Weakness
CWE-22
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (38.1%)

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