6.6

CVE-2018-19370: wordpress wordpress-seo Race Condition

Modified
Published 28-11-2018Last modified 05-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-19370 is a medium (CVSS 6.6) Race Condition vulnerability in wordpress wordpress-seo. EPSS estimates a 3.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded. Fixed in 9.2.0.

Overall risk
37/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.6/10
010
Medium · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits2github, reference

Timeline

  1. 28-11-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A Race condition vulnerability in unzip_file in admin/import/class-import-settings.php in the Yoast SEO (wordpress-seo) plugin before 9.2.0 for WordPress allows an SEO Manager to perform command execution on the Operating System via a ZIP import.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 2 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

3.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

88%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 3.21% on 22-09-2026

22-09-202622-10-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

2 found
  • githubUnverified

    Wordpress Seo

    Maturity: poc

  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (youtube.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress1 product
  • wordpress-seo≤ 9.1.0 (fixed in 9.2.0)
Yoast1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

4 links