CVE-2015-5469
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the MDC YouTube Downloader plugin 2.1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter to includes/download.php.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| mdc_youtube_downloader_project | mdc_youtube_downloader | 2.1.0 | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/5
- http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=133
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/5
- http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=133
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.