CVE-2015-20123
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.
- Score
- CVSS 4.0 8.7 High
- Status
- Deferred - disclosure@vulncheck.com
- Published
- 2026-10-20
- Last modified
- 2026-10-27
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Affected products
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559
- https://packetstorm.news/files/id/131167/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/043aa583-a81d-4565-bf65-83252b8f1f96
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-words-file-downloa…
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aspose-doc-exporter-wordpress-plugin-2.0-path-traversal-via-aspose-doc-exporter-do…
