CVE-2015-1365

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in pixabay-images.php in the Pixabay Images plugin before 2.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the q parameter.

Affected products

Pixabay Images Project Pixabay Images: through 2.3

References

http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/117147
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130017/WordPress-Pixarbay-Images-2.3-XSS-Bypass-Upload-Traversal.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/75
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35846
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/25/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534505/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100036
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=1067992%40pixabay-images%2Ftrunk%2Fpixabay-images.php&old=926633%40pixabay-images%2Ftrunk%2Fpixabay-images.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/pixabay-images/changelog/
https://www.mogwaisecurity.de/advisories/MSA-2015-01.txt
http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/117147
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130017/WordPress-Pixarbay-Images-2.3-XSS-Bypass-Upload-Traversal.html

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