CVE-2020-24186

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

94.62% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 99.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

10.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2020-08-24 13:02Z6 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-04 15:05Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2020-08-13

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Critical (CVSS 10.0)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:N/S:C/UI:N

Weaknesses

• CWE-434Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous TypeBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

1d59d02f7ee3661431abfc542eee58307fa5ef2dd59d311543bfde41eab6aeb6

• www.wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/07/critical-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability-patched-in-wpdiscuz-plugin/x_refsource_MISC
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162983/WordPress-wpDiscuz-7.0.4-Shell-Upload.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163012/WordPress-wpDiscuz-7.0.4-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163302/WordPress-wpDiscuz-7.0.4-Shell-Upload.htmlx_refsource_MISC