CVE-2015-20125
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
7.5
Severity
HIGH
Published
Oct 20, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
Aspose PDF Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download files through the unsanitized 'file' parameter passed to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_pdf_exporter_download.php with traversal sequences like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve WordPress database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.
References
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-pdf-file-download.yaml
- https://packetstorm.news/files/id/131161/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1127209/aspose-pdf-exporter
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-pdf-exporter/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/51dd0b6b-ba90-47e2-ad80-56b3e122bfd4