CVE-2015-5461
Open redirect vulnerability in the Redirect function in stageshow_redirect.php in the StageShow plugin before 5.0.9 for WordPress allows…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 6.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Open redirect vulnerability in the Redirect function in stageshow_redirect.php in the StageShow plugin before 5.0.9 for WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the url parameter.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it.
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Nuclei templates1 template
- WordPress StageShow <5.0.9 - Open Redirect (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2015/CVE-2015-5461.yamlSeverity medium
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.2% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/stageshow/changelog/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132553/WordPress-StageShow-5.0.8-Open-Redirect.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20150705 Open redirect vulnerability in StageShow Wordpress plugin v5.0.8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8073 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 75552 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1165310/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-5417 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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