7.1

CVE-2016-6896

Exploit

WordPress Core <= 4.5.3 - Denial of Service

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.
Mögliche Gegenmaßnahme
WordPress: Update to version 4.6, or a newer patched version
Weitere Schwachstelleninformationen
SystemWordPress Core
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Produkt WordPress
Version [*, 4.6)
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Wordpress ≫ Wordpress Version4.5.3
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 37.1% 0.97
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.1 2.8 4.2
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 8 4.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.