CVE-2018-9118
exports/download.php in the 99 Robots WP Background Takeover Advertisements plugin before 4.1.5 for WordPress has Directory Traversal via…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 46.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
exports/download.php in the 99 Robots WP Background Takeover Advertisements plugin before 4.1.5 for WordPress has Directory Traversal via a .. in the filename parameter.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits3
Nuclei templates1 template
- WordPress 99 Robots WP Background Takeover Advertisements <=4.1.4 - Local File Inclusion (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2018/CVE-2018-9118.yamlSeverity high
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Background Takeover < 4.1.4 - Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44417webapps, phppublished 9 Apr 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44417 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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
- 15 days later
· 15 days later
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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 46.3% · top 1.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 44417 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9056 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://99robots.com/docs/wp-background-takeover-advertisements/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2018-20718 (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-2018-9118)Record last updated .