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CVE-2018-16283

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wechat_brodcast_project:wechat_brodcast:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
63.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2018-16283 · May 27, 2021
ExploitDB: EDB-45438 · Sep 19, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6307 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2018/Sep/32
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / springjk/wordpress-wechat-broadcast/issues/14
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
wpvulndb.com / vulnerabilities/9132
ExploitThird Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/45438
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/150202
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry