CVE-2018-16299
CVE-2018-16299
Vexday Risk Score
50Attention
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).
CVSS —EPSS 44.4%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
19 Sep 2018Public PoC
24 Sep 2018Published on NVD
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
The Localize My Post plugin 1.0 for WordPress allows Directory Traversal via the ajax/include.php file parameter.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 3
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