High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2026
CVE-2015-20123
CVE-2015-20123
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.
Affected products
1- Range: <2.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
6- github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-words-file-download.yamlnvd
- packetstorm.news/files/id/131167/nvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter/nvd
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/043aa583-a81d-4565-bf65-83252b8f1f96nvd
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559nvd
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aspose-doc-exporter-wordpress-plugin-2.0-path-traversal-via-aspose-doc-exporter-download-phpnvd
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