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high 7.5

CVE-2018-7422 in the critical feed json

A Local File Inclusion vulnerability in the Site Editor plugin through 1.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to retrieve arbitrary fi…

published 2018-03-19 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-19153

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
62.3%
EPSS 62.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-44340)

Exploit prediction

62.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-44340 WordPress Plugin Site Editor 1.1.1 - Local File Inclusion webapps, 2018-03-23
  • Nuclei template WordPress Site Editor <=1.1.1 - Local File Inclusion nuclei detection template
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Mar/40 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
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References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.