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CVE-2016-10148

Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—

The wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Wordpress — Wordpress

CWEs

References

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