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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2015-5468

Directory traversal vulnerability in the WP e-Commerce Shop Styling plugin before 2.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..

EXPLOIT ✓HIGH 7.5EPSS 24.1%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.1%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the WP e-Commerce Shop Styling plugin before 2.6 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter to includes/download.php.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
24.09% probability · 98th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 8 July 2015
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-22
Affected
wpshopstyling/wp e-commerce shop styling
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%13%25%21 September 2026: 17.29%22 September 2026: 24.09%26 October 2026: 24.09%21 September 202626 October 2026

EPSS moved from 17.3% on 21 September 2026 to 24.1% on 26 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

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.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-37530source ↗WordPress Plugin WP E-Commerce Shop Styling 2.5 - Arbitrary File Downloadphp · Larry W. Cashdollarwebapps8 July 2015yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.