cve/cves/2016/CVE-2016-6897.md

CVE-2016-6897

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.6 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of subscribers for /dev/random read operations by leveraging a late call to the check_ajax_referer function, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

POC

Reference

• https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/path_traversal_vulnerability_in_wordpress_core_ajax_handlers.html
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8606
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288/

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.

ExploitDB

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40288

Metasploit

• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_directory_traversal_dos.rb