CVE-2015-20123highobserved exploitationCWE-22

CVE-2015-20123: high-severity vulnerability in Aspose Doc Exporter

Aspose Doc Exporter WordPress Plugin < 2.0 Path Traversal via aspose_doc_exporter_download.php

Published · Updated

63Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Actcvss 8.7epss 0.4%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDOct 20
VulnCheckOct 20
exploitation probability
0.4%top 65% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
2 public exploit(s)
Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-23.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Aspose · Aspose Doc Exporter
public PoCs found — 2
cve_referencepacketstorm.news/files/id/131167/unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559unverified
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References
https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-words-file-download.yamlhttps://packetstorm.news/files/id/131167/https://wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter/https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/043aa583-a81d-4565-bf65-83252b8f1f96https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aspose-doc-exporter-wordpress-plugin-2.0-path-traversal-via-aspose-doc-exporter-download-php