CVE-2015-5065
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in proxy.php in the google currency lookup in the Paypal Currency Converter Basic For WooCommerce plugin before 1.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the requrl…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16.2%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in proxy.php in the google currency lookup in the Paypal Currency Converter Basic For WooCommerce plugin before 1.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the requrl parameter.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 16.21% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 10 June 2015
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- intelligent-it/paypal currency converter basic for woocommerce
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 16.2% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132278/WordPress-Paypal-Currency-Converter-Basic-For-Woocommerce-1.3-File-Read.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75416Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1179092/paypal-currency-converter-basic-for-woocommerceThird Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-currency-converter-basic-for-woocommerce/changelog/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37253/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132278/WordPress-Paypal-Currency-Converter-Basic-For-Woocommerce-1.3-File-Read.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75416Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1179092/paypal-currency-converter-basic-for-woocommerceThird Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/paypal-currency-converter-basic-for-woocommerce/changelog/Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37253/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.