CVE-2018-19207
The Van Ons WP GDPR Compliance (aka wp-gdpr-compliance) plugin before 1.4.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 88.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Van Ons WP GDPR Compliance (aka wp-gdpr-compliance) plugin before 1.4.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code because $wpdb->prepare() input is mishandled, as exploited in the wild in November 2018.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and a Nuclei template for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- WordPress WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Privilege Escalation (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/admin/http/wp_gdpr_compliance_privescRank normaldisclosed 8 Nov 2018
Nuclei templates1 template
- WP GDPR Compliance < 1.4.3 - Unauthenticated Call Any Action or Update Any Option (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2018/CVE-2018-19207.yamlSeverity critical
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 88.1% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 105921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-gdpr-compliance/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9144 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/11/trends-following-vulnerability-in-wp-gdpr-compliance-plugin/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-10916 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-19207)Record last updated .