CVE-2018-16283 is a critical directory traversal vulnerability affecting the Wechat Broadcast plugin version 1.2.0 and earlier for WordPress, specifically via the Image.php url parameter. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available through ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, and it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wechat_brodcast_project:wechat_brodcast:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.