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.
- Reject
- 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