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CVE-2015-5471 (GCVE-0-2015-5471)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-12 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:50
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-07-02 00:00
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