CVE-2020-36728 describes a critical path traversal vulnerability in the Adning Advertising plugin for WordPress, affecting versions up to and including 1.5.5. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files, potentially leading to a full site compromise. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While not listed in CISA's KEV or having Metasploit exploits, Nuclei templates exist, and the vulnerability has significant community discussion, suggesting active interest and potential for exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.5.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:tunasite:adning_advertising:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.