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high 7.5

CVE-2015-5468 in the critical feed json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the WP e-Commerce Shop Styling plugin before 2.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitra…

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-5423

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.1%
EPSS 24.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the WP e-Commerce Shop Styling plugin before 2.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter to includes/download.php.

Patch / fix

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-37530)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

24.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37530 WordPress Plugin WP E-Commerce Shop Styling 2.5 - Arbitrary File Download webapps, 2015-07-08
  • vapid.dhs.org http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=136 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/06/19 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
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References

Sources

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