{"id":"CVE-2015-5469","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-5469","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T04:46:20.627Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2017-05-23T04:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:29:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["mdc youtube downloader project/mdc youtube downloader"],"epss":{"score":0.10148,"percentile":0.95668,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.0594,"percentile":0.92998},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.10148,"percentile":0.9544}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.1%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.10148,"from":0.0594,"percentile":0.9544},"summary":"EPSS moved from 5.9% to 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/1","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/5","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=133","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/1","tags":["Exploit","Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/5","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=133","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5469","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}