{"id":"CVE-2020-35234","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-35234","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T01:51:19.034Z","title":"The easy-wp-smtp plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows Administrator account takeover, as exploited in the wild in December 2020.","description":"The easy-wp-smtp plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows Administrator account takeover, as exploited in the wild in December 2020. If an attacker can list the wp-content/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/ directory, then they can discover a log file (such as #############_debug_log.txt) that contains all password-reset links. The attacker can request a reset of the Administrator password and then use a link found there.","published":"2020-12-14T03:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:13:35.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-532"],"affected":["wp-ecommerce/easy wp smtp"],"epss":{"score":0.60376,"percentile":0.99144,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[{"date":"2026-10-17","score":0.63407,"percentile":0.99204},{"date":"2026-10-18","score":0.60376,"percentile":0.99135}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 60.4%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://blog.nintechnet.com/wordpress-easy-wp-smtp-plugin-fixed-zero-day-vulnerability/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/#developers","tags":["Product","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blog.nintechnet.com/wordpress-easy-wp-smtp-plugin-fixed-zero-day-vulnerability/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/#developers","tags":["Product","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-35234","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}