phpwarden
FeaturesComparePricingAdvisoriesBlogDocsChangelogLog in
Log inStart free

CVE-2015-1365: Directory traversal vulnerability in pixabay-images.php in the Pixabay Images plugin before 2.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the q parameter.

medium Affects pixabay-images (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

Directory traversal vulnerability in pixabay-images.php in the Pixabay Images plugin before 2.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the q parameter.

Package
pixabay-images (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<=2.3
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 5.0
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 13% (96.3th percentile)
Published
2015-01-27
Source
nvd

References

CWE-22
NVD recordpixabay-images (WordPress plugin) advisories

Am I affected?

Find out in one command. phpwarden checks your WordPress install against this advisory and 20,000+ others, ranked by real-world exploitation (CISA KEV + EPSS). Free, offline, open data.

# PHP projects (recommended)
composer require --dev phpwarden/phpwarden
# then
vendor/bin/phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

# or, without Composer
pipx install phpwarden   &&   phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

Install docs   How findings are ranked

Related advisories