CVE-2016-6896: Wordpress vulnerability
Affected: Wordpress · Exploitation: likely to be exploited (10% or more)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 98% of scored CVEs
Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.
DescriptionCVE.org
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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- Exploitation
- Likely to be exploited (10% or more). EPSS gives it a 10% or higher chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Wordpress
- Published
- January 2017
CoverageNo articles yet
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