Wordpress : Security Vulnerabilities, CVEs, Published In 2017 (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.
Max CVSS
7.1
EPSS Score
32.65%
Published
2017-01-18
Updated
2017-09-03
1 vulnerabilities found