CVE-2016-6896

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6896

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6896.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6896

Downstream

Published

2017-01-18T21:59:00Z

Modified

2026-10-16T02:45:07Z

Severity

7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Events

Introduced

1e3dcd8b0d1b07bc7e4ddfe063838dc21772e451

Last Affected

1e3dcd8b0d1b07bc7e4ddfe063838dc21772e451

Database specific

Show details

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "4.5.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "4.5.3"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*

4.5.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6896.json"

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop