Directory traversal vulnerability in services/getfile.php in the Paid Memberships Pro plugin before 1.7.15 for WordPress allows remote…

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in services/getfile.php in the Paid Memberships Pro plugin before 1.7.15 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the QUERY_STRING in a getfile action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

18.0% · top 2.8% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://www.paidmembershipspro.com/2014/11/critical-security-update-pmpro-v1-7-15/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129189/Paid-Memberships-Pro-1.7.14.2-Path-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• paidmembershi-cve20148801-dir-traversal(98805) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 35303 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/changelog/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://security.szurek.pl/paid-memberships-pro-17142-path-traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 71293 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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)
• 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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[![CVE-2014-8801](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2014-8801.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2014-8801)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:26 UTC.