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CVE-2018-20985

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—Exploit
Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability7.67 %higher than 95% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitAvailableNuclei template (automated mass detection)

The wp-payeezy-pay plugin before 2.98 for WordPress has local file inclusion in pay.php, donate.php, donate-rec, and pay-rec.

CVSS

Base score
9.8
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
7.67 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
95
Score date
10/31/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Affected technologies (1)

Payeezy — WP Payeezy PAY

CWEs

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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