CVE-2018-15877

EPSS 77.0%

Vexday Risk Score

60Attention

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Popular PoC on GitHub (1 stars) — exploitation code widely available.

CVSS —EPSS 77.0%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch —

Lifecycle

26 Aug 2018Metasploit module available

26 Aug 2018Published on NVD

27 Aug 2018Public PoC

Weaponization speed

1 daysto first PoC

same dayto Metasploit module

Weaponized quickly — attackers prioritized this vulnerability. Patch urgently.

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

The Plainview Activity Monitor plugin before 20180826 for WordPress is vulnerable to OS command injection via shell metacharacters in the ip parameter of a wp-admin/admin.php?page=plainview_activity_monitor&tab=activity_tools request.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 7

githubgithub.com/Cinnamon1212/CVE-2018-15877-RCE★ 1 githubgithub.com/cved-sources/cve-2018-15877★ 0 cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45274/unverified cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/155502/WordPress-Plainview-Activity-Monitor-20161228-Remote-Command-Execution.htmlunverified cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/163425/WordPress-Plainview-Activity-Monitor-20161228-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlunverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/45274unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/50110unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155502/WordPress-Plainview-Activity-Monitor-20161228-Remote-Command-Execution.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163425/WordPress-Plainview-Activity-Monitor-20161228-Remote-Code-Execution.html https://github.com/aas-n/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2018-15877 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45274/