Candidate: CVE-2016-6896
PublicDate: 2017-01-18 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6896
 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/347
 https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H [7.1 HIGH]

Patches_wordpress:
upstream_wordpress: needs-triage
precise_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_wordpress: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_wordpress: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_wordpress: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_wordpress: DNE
xenial_wordpress: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
yakkety_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_wordpress: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
cosmic_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
disco_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
eoan_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
focal_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
groovy_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
hirsute_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
impish_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
jammy_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)
devel_wordpress: not-affected (4.6.1+dfsg-1)