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Vulnerability details: VCID-rtrx-nq73-wffv
Vulnerability ID VCID-rtrx-nq73-wffv
Aliases CVE-2018-20153
Summary In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, contributors could modify new comments made by users with greater privileges, possibly causing XSS.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.9
Risk 2.5
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2018-20153
https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.9.9
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20147
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20148
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20149
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20150
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20151
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20152
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20153
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8942
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00019.html
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/
https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0-1/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9172
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4401
https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-plugs-bug-that-led-to-google-indexing-some-user-passwords/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106220
916403 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916403
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2018-20153 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20153
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20153
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20153
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.83953
EPSS Score 0.02233
Published At Aug. 1, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T09:59:31.721635+00:00 NVD Importer Import https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20153 37.0.0