Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6896

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-18 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 01:43:38

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

← Browse all CVEs View on cve.org ↗