UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6896
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6896
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6896.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6896
- Upstream
- Published
- 2017-01-18T21:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-10-24T04:45:52Z
- 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
- Ubuntu - medium
- 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
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / wordpress
Package
- Name
- wordpress
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/wordpress@4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
-
Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Affected versions
4.*
4.3+dfsg-1
4.3.1+dfsg-1
4.4+dfsg-1
4.4.1+dfsg-1
4.4.2+dfsg-1
4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1
Ecosystem specific
{
"binaries": [
{
"binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1",
"binary_name": "wordpress"
},
{
"binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1",
"binary_name": "wordpress-l10n"
},
{
"binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1",
"binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentyfifteen"
},
{
"binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1",
"binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentyfourteen"
},
{
"binary_version": "4.4.2+dfsg-1ubuntu1",
"binary_name": "wordpress-theme-twentysixteen"
}
]
}