CVE-2015-7683 (GCVE-0-2015-7683)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-16 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:58
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-10-12 00:00
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