Vulnerability · Published Jun 18, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-13640

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 14.5% (higher than 97% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)14.5%top 3.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling2Nuclei, Public PoC

Official description

A SQL injection issue in the gVectors wpDiscuz plugin 5.3.5 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the order parameter of a wpdLoadMoreComments request. (No 7.x versions are affected.)

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdiscuz/#developers x_refsource_MISC
https://wpdiscuz.com/community/news/security-vulnerability-issue-in-5-3-5-please-udate/ x_refsource_MISC
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2323200 x_refsource_MISC
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdiscuz/tags/5.3.6 x_refsource_MISC
[oss-security] 20200706 CVE-2020-13640: WordPress Plugin wpDiscuz <= 5.3.5 SQL injection mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST