CVE-2016-6896 -- wordpress| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1901513 | Date: (C)2019-03-05 (M)2023-12-20 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: unix |
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 .. in the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, as demonstrated by /dev/random read operations that deplete the entropy pool.
| Platform: |
| Ubuntu 16.04 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 |
