PT-2017-9099 · WordPress · Wordpress

Cengiz Han Sahin · Published 2016-09-29 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2016-7169

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.6.1

Description A directory traversal issue exists in the File Upload Upgrader class, allowing remote authenticated users to access arbitrary files by crafting a urlholder parameter.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.6.1, update to version 4.6.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7169

DLA-633-1

DSA-3681-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 23

• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/54720a14d85bc1197ded7cb09bd3ea790caa0b6e · Patch
• https://wordpress.org/news/2016/09/wordpress-4-6-1-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7169 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7169 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3681-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7169 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6635 · Security Note
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.6.1 · Patch
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6634 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7168 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7169 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7169 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3681-1 · Vendor Advisory