High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 20, 2026
CVE-2015-20125
CVE-2015-20125
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: <2.0
Patches
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References
6- github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-pdf-file-download.yamlnvd
- packetstorm.news/files/id/131161/nvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1127209/aspose-pdf-exporternvd
- wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-pdf-exporter/nvd
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/51dd0b6b-ba90-47e2-ad80-56b3e122bfd4nvd
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aspose-pdf-exporter-wordpress-plugin-2.0-path-traversal-via-aspose-pdf-exporter-download-phpnvd
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