Exploitation Summary
CVE-2015-5469 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.
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.
Nuclei Templates (1)
WordPress MDC YouTube Downloader 2.1.0 - Local File Inclusion
HIGHby 0x_Akoko
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/07/1
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=133
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/10/5
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.4911
EPSS Percentile
97.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-22
Status
published
Products (1)
mdc_youtube_downloader_project/mdc_youtube_downloader
2.1.0
Published
May 23, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026