Published: 18/01/2017 Updated: 16/03/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8

CVSS v3 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 2.8

VMScore: 356

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

The wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress prior to 4.6 makes a get_plugin_data call before checking the update_plugins capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended read-access restrictions via the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

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README and exploit descriptions

CST312-WordPressExploits README and exploit descriptions Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting Time spent: 4 hours spent in total Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress Pentesting Report (Required) Vulnerability Name or ID: Directory Indexing Summary: Vulnerability types: Passive Tested in version: All Fixed

CWE-254 CWE-284 https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37490 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/38168 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96847 https://nvd.nist.gov https://github.com/JNado/CST312-WordPressExploits

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