CVE-2016-6896 (GCVE-0-2016-6896)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-18 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:43
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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