PayPal Currency Converter BASIC for WooCommerce <= 1.3 - Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Read

5.3
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2015-5065
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published June 10, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Kuroi'SH

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in proxy.php in the google currency lookup in the Paypal Currency Converter Basic For WooCommerce plugin before 1.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the requrl parameter.

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Vulnerability Details for PayPal Currency Converter BASIC for WooCommerce

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug paypal-currency-converter-basic-for-woocommerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3
Patched Version
  • 1.4

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