CVE-2015-2791
Status: ModifiedMedium (6.4)—Exploit
Severity6.4Medium · CVSS 2.0
Exploitation probability13 %higher than 96% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB
The "menu sync" function in the WPML plugin before 3.1.9 for WordPress allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary posts, pages, and menus via a crafted request to sitepress-multilingual-cms/menu/menus-sync.php.
CVSS
- Base score
- 6.4
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 13 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 96
- Score date
- 11/1/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · WordPress Plugin WPML 3.1.9 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (3/16/2015)
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-264
References
Show 10 references
- http://klikki.fi/adv/wpml.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130810/WordPress-WPML-XSS-Deletion-SQL-Injection.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/71
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534862/100/0/threaded
- https://wpml.org/2015/03/wpml-security-update-bug-and-fix/
- http://klikki.fi/adv/wpml.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130810/WordPress-WPML-XSS-Deletion-SQL-Injection.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/71
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534862/100/0/threaded
- https://wpml.org/2015/03/wpml-security-update-bug-and-fix/
Raw JSON (NVD)
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