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CVE-2015-7683
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Font.php in the Font plugin before 7.5.1 for WordPress allows remote administrators to read…
- 4.0MediumCVSS base score
- 5.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Font.php in the Font plugin before 7.5.1 for WordPress allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the url parameter to AjaxProxy.php.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
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 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133930/WordPress-Font-7.5-Path-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20151012 CVE-2015-7683: Absolute Path Traversal in the Font WordPress Plugin (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/font/changelog/ (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-2015-7585 (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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