5.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2015-5471
Swim Team WordPress Absolute Path Traversal
Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in include/user/download.php in the Swim Team plugin 1.44.10777 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 12, 2016, 7:59 p.m.

Last Modified :

April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

1.4

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2015-5471 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2015-5471 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Swim_team_project swim_team

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

nuclei-templates 5W+已校验

nuclei-templates

Python

Updated: 5 months, 1 week ago
212 stars 53 fork 53 watcher
Born at : Feb. 26, 2024, 8:26 a.m. This repo has been linked 33 different CVEs too.

essential templates for kenzer [DEPRECATED]

kenzer vulnerabilities kenzer-templates arpsyndicate

Python Shell Ruby

Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago
117 stars 38 fork 38 watcher
Born at : Sept. 18, 2020, 9:03 p.m. This repo has been linked 1655 different CVEs too.

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2015-5471 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2015-5471 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://michaelwalsh.org/blog/2015/07/wp-swimteam-v1-45-beta-3-now-available/
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132653/WordPress-WP-SwimTeam-1.44.10777-Arbitrary-File-Download.html
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75600
    Added Reference http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=134
    Added Reference https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-vulnerability-6
    Added Reference https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8071
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 28, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75600 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 20, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:swim_team_project:swim_team:1.44.10777:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132653/WordPress-WP-SwimTeam-1.44.10777-Arbitrary-File-Download.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132653/WordPress-WP-SwimTeam-1.44.10777-Arbitrary-File-Download.html Exploit
    Changed Reference Type http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=134 No Types Assigned http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=134 Exploit
    Changed Reference Type https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-vulnerability-6 No Types Assigned https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-vulnerability-6 Advisory, Patch
    Changed Reference Type https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8071 No Types Assigned https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8071 Exploit
    Added CWE CWE-22
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 15, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 15, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

38.02 }} 6.87%

score

0.97057

percentile

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