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CVE-2018-20985

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-20985 is a critical local file inclusion vulnerability affecting versions of the wp-payeezy-pay plugin for WordPress prior to 2.98, specifically within pay.php, donate.php, donate-rec, and pay-rec. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely access sensitive files, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on KEV or having public Metasploit/ExploitDB modules, Nuclei templates exist for this critical flaw, indicating exploitability. Despite its high severity, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.98CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:payeezy:wp_payeezy_pay:*:*:*:*:*: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
7.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2018-20985 · Jul 22, 2021
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0761 is in the 89th 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

wordpress.org / plugins/wp-payeezy-pay
Release Notes