CVE-2016-6896
- 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
- 2025-12-09T16:45:00.031863Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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.
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