SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-20985

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

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 7.67%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.67%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
7.67% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
payeezy/wp payeezy pay
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%21 September 2026: 3.48%22 September 2026: 7.67%27 October 2026: 7.67%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 3.5% on 21 September 2026 to 7.7% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.