CVE-2014-5465

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 14%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDSep 3

1st PoCAug 28

exploitation probability

14%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

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 products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/128024/WordPress-ShortCode-1.1-Local-File-Inclusion.htmlunverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/34436unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/34436unverified

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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128024/WordPress-ShortCode-1.1-Local-File-Inclusion.html http://wordpress.org/plugins/download-shortcode/changelog/http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-download-shortcode-security-issue http://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerability-5 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34436 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69440