CVE-2015-1579

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Elegant Themes Divi theme for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the img parameter in a revslider_show_image action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. NOTE: this vulnerability may be a duplicate of CVE-2014-9734.

Affected products

Elegant Themes Divi: all versions

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36039
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7540
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36039
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7540

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