Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-6523

Title: Portfolio Project Portfolio Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-6523.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Aug 19, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.18%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-6523: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Portfolio plugin before 1.05 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the instagram-portfolio page in wp-admin/options-general.php.

Impacted Vendors

portfolio_project 1

bestwebsoft 1

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/104 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1175403/portfolio-by-lisa-westlund https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8108 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jul/104 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1175403/portfolio-by-lisa-westlund https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8108

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-6523 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 19, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.