CVE-2015-20123
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
7.5
Severity
HIGH
Published
Oct 20, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
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.
References
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-words-file-download.yaml
- https://packetstorm.news/files/id/131167/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/043aa583-a81d-4565-bf65-83252b8f1f96
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559