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cvelistMitreCVELIST:CVE-2016-6896
HistoryJan 18, 2017 - 9:00 p.m.

CVE-2016-6896

2017-01-1821:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org
8

AI Score

5.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.327

Percentile

97.1%

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.