CVE-2015-4465

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Published 2015-06-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the zM Ajax Login & Register plugin before 1.1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37200 webapps php text · 1 KB

Panagiotis Vagenas · 2015-06-04

WordPress Plugin zM Ajax Login & Register 1.0.9 - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: CVE-2015-4153 - WordPress zM Ajax Login & Register
Plugin [Local File Inclusion]
# Date: 2015/06/01
# Exploit Author: Panagiotis Vagenas
# Contact: https://twitter.com/panVagenas
# Vendor Homepage: http://zanematthew.com/
# Software Link:
https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/zm-ajax-login-register.1.0.9.zip
# Version: 1.0.9
# Tested on: WordPress 4.2.2
# Category: webapps
# CVE: CVE-2015-4153

* Description

Any authenticated or non-authenticated user can perform a local file
inclusion attack by exploiting the wp_ajax_nopriv_load_template action.
Plugin simply includes the file specified in 'template' POST parameter
without any further validation.

* Proof of Concept

Send a post request to
`http://my.vulnerable.website.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` with data:
`action=load_template&template=[relative path to local
file]&security=[wp nonce]&referer=[action from which the nonce came from]`

* Timeline

2015/06/01 Discovered
2015/06/01 Vendor alerted via contact form at his website
2015/06/03 Vendor responded
2015/06/03 Fixed in version 1.1.0


* Solution

Update to version 1.1.0

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
zanematthew	zm_ajax_login_\&_register	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.9"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.