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CVE-2015-2825

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in sam-ajax-admin.php in the Simple Ads Manager plugin before 2.5.96 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the path parameter.

Affected products

• Simple Ads Manager Plugin: through 2.5.94

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131282/WordPress-Simple-Ads-Manager-2.5.94-File-Upload.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/8
• http://www.itas.vn/news/ITAS-Team-found-out-multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-Hakin9-IT-Security-Magazine-78.html
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-ads-manager/changelog/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36614/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131282/WordPress-Simple-Ads-Manager-2.5.94-File-Upload.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/8
• http://www.itas.vn/news/ITAS-Team-found-out-multiple-critical-vulnerabilities-in-Hakin9-IT-Security-Magazine-78.html
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-ads-manager/changelog/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36614/

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