CVE-2016-6896

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6896
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6896.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6896
Downstream
Published
2017-01-18T21:59:00.277Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:48:11.908345948Z
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 wpajaxupdate_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 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.5.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.3"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.5.3

Database specific

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

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress-develop
Events
Introduced
ba2edc67c9a31d2da0ec47b9c08880b400734e10
Last affected
ba2edc67c9a31d2da0ec47b9c08880b400734e10
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "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/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6896.json"