Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.1
- Impact score
- 4.2
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.5
- Impact score
- 4.9
- Exploitability score
- 8
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-22
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "3E3C09D8-B36B-4807-AC78-C0E893F1A72E"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]