CVE-2020-18178 is a critical path traversal vulnerability affecting HongCMS v4.0.0, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to view, edit, and delete arbitrary files through a crafted POST request to "/hcms/admin/index.php/language/ajax." With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hongcms_project:hongcms:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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.