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WordPress Traversal Directory DoS

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
2018-05-30

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.

Authors

Yorick Koster
CryptisStudents

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_directory_traversal_dos
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_directory_traversal_dos) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_directory_traversal_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_directory_traversal_dos) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_directory_traversal_dos) > run
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