CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-5465
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-09-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in force-download.php in the Download Shortcode plugin 0.2.3 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter.
Affected configurations
• werdswords download shortcode (<= 0.2.3)
• werdswords download shortcode 0.1
• werdswords download shortcode 0.2
• werdswords download shortcode 0.2.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128024/WordPress-ShortCode-1.1-Local-File-Inclusion.html Exploit
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/download-shortcode/changelog/ Patch
- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-download-shortcode-security-issue Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerability-5 Patch
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34436 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69440 Exploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128024/WordPress-ShortCode-1.1-Local-File-Inclusion.html Exploit
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/download-shortcode/changelog/ Patch
- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-download-shortcode-security-issue Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerability-5 Patch
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34436 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69440 Exploit