CVE-2018-19458

FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-19458 is a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in PHP Proxy version 3.0.3, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the server. This critical flaw has a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		3.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:php-proxy:php-proxy:3.0.3:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

32.88%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

98.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

Nuclei: CVE-2018-19458 · Aug 3, 2021

ExploitDB: EDB-45780 · Nov 5, 2018

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3288 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-3x3m-p2wx-g7cwhigh

Unauthenticated File Read in PHP Proxy

May 14, 2022

References

pentest.com.tr / exploits/PHP-Proxy-3-0-3-Local-File-Inclusion.html

ExploitThird Party Advisory

exploit-db.com / exploits/45780

ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry