CVE-2018-7422
CVE-2018-7422
Vexday Risk Score
72High priority
SSVC decision (CISA)
Act
Exploitation + impact → act immediately
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Popular PoC on GitHub (1 stars) — exploitation code widely available.
CVSS —EPSS 63.1%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
19 Mar 2018Published on NVD
23 Mar 2018Public PoC
Weaponization speed
3 daysto first PoC
Weaponized quickly — attackers prioritized this vulnerability. Patch urgently.
Recommendation: Patch as soon as possible — active exploitation confirmed.
A Local File Inclusion vulnerability in the Site Editor plugin through 1.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to retrieve arbitrary files via the ajax_path parameter to editor/extensions/pagebuilder/includes/ajax_shortcode_pattern.php, aka absolute path traversal.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 9
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