CVE-2014-5465

medium

Published 2014-09-03 · 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

6.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-34436 webapps php verified

Mehdi Karout & Christian Galeone · 2014-08-28

WordPress Plugin ShortCode 0.2.3 - Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
werdswords	download_shortcode	`{"endIncluding":"0.2.3"}`
werdswords	download_shortcode	`0.1`
werdswords	download_shortcode	`0.2`
werdswords	download_shortcode	`0.2.2`

References

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.