CVE-2016-6896

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3