CVE-2015-4027 — The AcuWVSSchedulerv10 service in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) before 10 build 20151125 allows local users to gain privileges via a command parameter in the reporttemplate property in a params JSON object to api/addScan

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The AcuWVSSchedulerv10 service in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) before 10 build 20151125 allows local users to gain privileges via a command parameter in the reporttemplate property in a params JSON object to api/addScan

Published Dec 17, 2015

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.10%

Description

The AcuWVSSchedulerv10 service in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) before 10 build 20151125 allows local users to gain privileges via a command parameter in the reporttemplate property in a params JSON object to api/addScan.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.10% 0.01102

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01102

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.10% (0.01102)	64.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.16% (0.01158)	62.84th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.00% (0.01002)	75.46th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.06% (0.00061)	27.92th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 31, 2024	0.06% (0.00061)	25.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.06% (0.00061)	23.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	2.63% (0.02626)	82.10th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	2.63% (0.02626)	80.31th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	2.63% (0.02626)	61.81th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134602/Acunetix-WVS-10-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://www.acunetix.com/blog/releases/acunetix-10-build-includes-security-checks-in-cors-configurations/
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38847/
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134602/Acunetix-WVS-10-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://www.acunetix.com/blog/releases/acunetix-10-build-includes-security-checks-in-cors-configurations/		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38847/		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 17, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 19, 2015

Link CVE-2015-4027

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-4027

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-4027