CVE-2015-5469

high
Published 2017-05-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mdc_youtube_downloader_projectmdc_youtube_downloader2.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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