CVE-2016-6896

Published: 2017-01-18T21:59Z

Last Modified: 2024-11-21T02:57Z

Source: MITRE CVE List

License: MITRE-CVE-TOS

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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt