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CVE-2016-6896

N/A

Published: January 18, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorWordPress

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 38%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

WordPress · WordPressdrupal

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (5)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683

x_refsource_MISCExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606

Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Source: [email protected]

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/

CVSS

5.5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-22

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