Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2016-6896 First vendor Publication 2017-01-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-09-03

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 7.1
Base Score 7.1 Environmental Score 7.1
impact SubScore 4.2 Temporal Score 7.1
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact Low
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6896

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-02-21 WordPress Admin API ajax-actions.php directory traversal attempt
RuleID : 41355 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-WEBAPP

Metasploit Database

id Description
2020-05-23 WordPress Traversal Directory DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-80a1d6211a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-91bfe9ddb8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-a8657278bf.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-25 Name : A PHP application running on the remote web server is affected by multiple vu...
File : wordpress_4_6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
EXPLOIT-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/
MISC https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_c...
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036683

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