CVE-2015-4694

high
Published 2016-01-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
8.6

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in download.php in the Zip Attachments plugin before 1.5.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the za_file parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
91%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/zip-attachments/changelog/

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
zip_attachments_projectzip_attachments{"endIncluding":"1.5"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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