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ghsa-3wwg-h2fr-3v7w

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 02:55

Modified

2022-05-17 02:55

Severity ?

4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

The wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.6 makes a get_plugin_data call before checking the update_plugins capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended read-access restrictions via the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

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CVE-2016-10148 (GCVE-0-2016-10148)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-01-18 21:00

Modified

2024-08-06 03:14

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.6 makes a get_plugin_data call before checking the update_plugins capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended read-access restrictions via the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96847	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/38168	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37490	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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