CVE-2016-6896

EPSS 38.4%

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 products

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public PoCs found — 2

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288unverified

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References

https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683