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.
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_dosmsf undefined(directory_traversal_dos) > show actions ...actions...msf undefined(directory_traversal_dos) > set ACTION < action-name >msf undefined(directory_traversal_dos) > show options ...show and set options...msf undefined(directory_traversal_dos) > runPrioritise with Active Threat Intelligence
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