# CVE-2014-5181: Last.fm Rotation - Local File Inclusion

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2014-5181 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2014-5181

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 5.0
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** N/A Last.fm Rotation
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))
- **Tags:** wordpress, php

## Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in lastfm-proxy.php in the Last.fm Rotation (lastfm-rotation) plugin 1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the snode parameter.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2014-5181](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2014-5181) is a directory traversal in the Last.fm Rotation plugin for WordPress: the snode parameter of lastfm-proxy.php is not sanitised, so unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files from the server.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 25th of February 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2014-5181 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers request `wp-content/plugins/lastfm-rotation/lastfm-proxy.php` with `..` sequences in the `snode` parameter to read files such as `wp-config.php`.

## Timeline

- 2014-08-06: CVE Published. CVE-2014-5181 is published to NVD.
- 2026-02-25: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2014-5181 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-08-16: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2014-5181 for the first time.

## References

- http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-lastfm-rotation-local-file-inclusion

## Live exploitation data

The [Live Exploit Tracker page](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2014-5181) follows observed exploitation activity for CVE-2014-5181. [Request an API key](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/request-api-key) for full access to its exploitation timeline, attacking IP addresses and blocklists.