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nvd[email protected]NVD:CVE-2016-6896
HistoryJan 18, 2017 - 9:59 p.m.

CVE-2016-6896

2017-01-1821:59:00
CWE-22
web.nvd.nist.gov
6

CVSS2

5.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

AI Score

5.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.327

Percentile

97.1%

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.

Affected configurations

Nvd
Node
wordpresswordpressMatch4.5.3
VendorProductVersionCPE
wordpresswordpress4.5.3cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS2

5.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS3

7.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

AI Score

5.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.327

Percentile

97.1%