WordPress Core <= 4.5.3 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE	CVE-2016-6896
CVSS	Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published	August 22, 2016
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Yorick Koster,

Description

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.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Core
Software Slug	wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 4.6
Patched Version	4.6

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