DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6896

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6896
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6896.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6896
Upstream
Published
2017-01-18T21:59:00.277Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:04:41.190947Z
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

Debian:11 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:12 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:13 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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

Debian:14 / wordpress

Package

Name
wordpress
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.6.1+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

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