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Vulnerability · CVE-2015-20123

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Published Oct 20, 2026 · catalog updated Oct 22, 2026 · Aspose Aspose Doc Exporter

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CVE-2015-20123 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Aspose Aspose Doc Exporter against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Gaps on this record

  • No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
Severity
High8.7
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
0.41%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor Aspose Aspose Doc Exporter

Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-23.

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  • vendor Aspose Aspose Doc Exporterversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2015-20123

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2015-20123 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Aspose Aspose Doc Exporter against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

CWE-22: Path Traversal. EPSS 0.41%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Technology hubs

WordPress security

Code

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Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Oct 20, 2026 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was fi

  2. Oct 20, 2026 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

  3. Oct 22, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was fi

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2015-20123

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2015-20123

    30-day exploitation probability 0.41%

    first.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2015-20123

    Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the '

    nvd.nist.gov
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2015-20123

    Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the '

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 21, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.