NVD

Id
21506  
Name
CVE-2016-6896  
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.  
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CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
5.5  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
5.5  
CVSS Impact Subscore
4.9  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
8  
CVSS Vector
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)  
Pub Date
2017-07-18  
Published
2017-01-18  
Modified Date
2017-07-17  
Seq
2016-6896  

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