NVD / CVE Program· CNA WPScan

CVE-2020-36666: Multiple e-plugins - Subscriber+ Privilege Escalation

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.90% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 59.9% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The directory-pro WordPress plugin before 1.9.5, final-user-wp-frontend-user-profiles WordPress plugin before 1.2.2, producer-retailer WordPress plugin through TODO, photographer-directory WordPress plugin before 1.0.9, real-estate-pro WordPress plugin before 1.7.1, institutions-directory WordPress plugin before 1.3.1, lawyer-directory WordPress plugin before 1.2.9, doctor-listing WordPress plugin before 1.3.6, Hotel Listing WordPress plugin before 1.3.7, fitness-trainer WordPress plugin before 1.4.1, wp-membership WordPress plugin before 1.5.7, sold by the same developer (e-plugins), do not implementing any security measures in some AJAX calls. For example in the file plugin.php, the function iv_directories_update_profile_setting() uses update_user_meta with any data provided by the ajax call, which can be used to give the logged in user admin capabilities. Since the plugins allow user registration via a custom form (even if the blog does not allow users to register) it makes any site using it vulnerable.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Mar 27, 2023
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.9% · 59th percentile
CWE: CWE-269

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.9%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
e-plugins	directory pro	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:directory_pro
e-plugins	final user	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:final_user
e-plugins	fitness trainer	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:fitness_trainer
e-plugins	hospital \& doctor directory	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:hospital_\&_doctor_directory
e-plugins	hotel directory	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:hotel_directory
e-plugins	institutions directory	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:institutions_directory
e-plugins	lawyer directory	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:lawyer_directory
e-plugins	photographer-directory	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:photographer-directory
e-plugins	producer-retailer	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:producer-retailer
e-plugins	real estate pro	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:real_estate_pro
e-plugins	wp membership	cpe:2.3:a:e-plugins:wp_membership

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

e-plugins directory probefore 1.9.5
e-plugins final userbefore 1.2.2
e-plugins fitness trainerbefore 1.4.1
e-plugins hospital & doctor directorybefore 1.3.6
e-plugins hotel directorybefore 1.3.7
e-plugins institutions directorybefore 1.3.1
e-plugins lawyer directorybefore 1.2.9
e-plugins photographer-directorybefore 1.0.9
e-plugins producer-retailerall versions
e-plugins real estate probefore 1.7.1
e-plugins wp membershipbefore 1.5.7

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Unknown directory-pro
- before 1.9.5affected
Unknown doctor-listing
- before 1.3.6affected
Unknown final-user-wp-frontend-user-profiles
- before 1.2.2affected
Unknown fitness-trainer
- before 1.4.1affected
Unknown Hotel Listing
- before 1.3.7affected
Unknown institutions-directory
- before 1.3.1affected
Unknown lawyer-directory
- before 1.2.9affected
Unknown photographer-directory
- before 1.0.9affected
Unknown producer-retailer
- up to and including TODOaffected
Unknown real-estate-pro
- before 1.7.1affected
Unknown wp-membership
- before 1.5.7affected

Same product

e-plugins: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2026-66649WordPress Directory Pro plugin <= 2.5.8 - SQL Injection vulnerability
37Monitor
CVE-2026-27396WordPress Directory Pro plugin <= 2.5.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
29Monitor
CVE-2025-52748WordPress Directory Pro plugin <= 2.5.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
28Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

Later →CVE-2025-57948Sep 22, 2025 · WordPress Directory Pro Plugin <= 2.5.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
26Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-64243Dec 16, 2025 · WordPress Directory Pro plugin <= 2.5.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Omar Badranfinder
WPScancoordinator

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

To simplify setup, a service account is granted broad, cluster-wide permissions. The principle of least privilege is skipped during installation.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-269 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

yaml

1kind: ClusterRole
2rules:
3  - apiGroups: ["*"]
4    resources: ["*"]
5    verbs: ["*"]

Fixed

yaml

1kind: Role
2metadata:
3  namespace: lodos-system
4rules:
5  - apiGroups: ["apps"]
6    resources: ["deployments"]
7    verbs: ["get", "list", "update"]

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT1548

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

codecanyon.net/user/e-plugins

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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