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7.1high

CVE-2016-6896in critical feed1 exploit

Directory traversal vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress 4.5.3 allows rem…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.1
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
38.1%
percentile 99%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

38.07% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-40288 WordPress Core 4.5.3 - Directory Traversal / Denial of Service · webapps · 2016-08-22

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds
WordPress (RSS, critical only)

References

  • securitytracker.com /id/1036683 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/40288/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
  • sumofpwn.nl /advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • wpvulndb.com /vulnerabilities/8606 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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