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 arbitra
Medium 4.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2015-7683 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2015-7683 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Oct 2015.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7683 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-7683/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-7683/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-7683?
CVE-2015-7683 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Oct 2015.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7683?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Font Project Font.
How do I fix CVE-2015-7683?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-7683 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2015-7683 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7683 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pq7r-cj5m-jgr5.