CVE-2020-37245
📛 CVE Title
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Description
Supsystic Digital Publications 1.6.9 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Folder input field that allows attackers to access files outside the web root by injecting directory traversal sequences. Additionally, the plugin fails to sanitize input fields in publication settings, allowing stored cross-site scripting attacks through script injection in parameters like Area Width and Publication Width that execute when publications are viewed or edited.
Overview
- State
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- Assigner (CNA)
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- CVSS severity
- high
- CVSS score
- 7.5 / 10
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Effective score
- 7.5 / 10 HIGH source: CNA overview
- CWE(s)
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- Reserved
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- Published
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- Last updated
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- Source
- https://www.tenable.com/cve/CVE-2020-37245
- Linked Threat
- CVE-2020-37245 — CVE-2020-37245
NVD triage scoring NVD CVE 2.0
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- NVD published
- 2026-05-16 16:16:20 UTC
- NVD last modified
- 2026-05-18 17:32:04 UTC
- NVD CVSS v3.1
- 7.5 / 10 HIGH source: disclosure@vulncheck.com
- NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N- Exploitability subscore
- 3.9 / 10
- Impact subscore
- 3.6 / 10
- EPSS score
- 0.0016 (probability of exploitation in next 30 days)
- EPSS percentile
- 36.14% vs all CVEs — higher = more likely to be exploited, as of 2026-05-24
NVD-assigned CWE(s):
CWE-79
(differs from the CNA list above)
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European Union Vulnerability Database ENISA EUVD
ENISA's official EU repository for curated vulnerability intelligence. Carries a separate identifier (EUVD-YYYY-NNNN) and frequently exposes an earlier-published description + CVSS than NVD does.
- EUVD ID
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EUVD-2020-31247 - Assigner
- VulnCheck
- Published
- May 16, 2026, 3:26:00 PM
- Updated
- May 18, 2026, 6:06:40 PM
- EUVD base score (CVSS 4.0)
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8.7 / 10
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EUVD-reported EPSS
- 0.1600
- Vendors
- Supsystic
- Products
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Digital Publications (1.6.9)
- Aliases
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GHSA-jqgv-r8cx-777f
ENISA description: Supsystic Digital Publications 1.6.9 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Folder input field that allows attackers to access files outside the web root by injecting directory traversal sequences. Additionally, the plugin fails to sanitize input fields in publication settings, allowing stored cross-site scripting attacks through script injection in parameters like Area Width and Publication Width that execute when publications are viewed or edited.
Vendor references (0)
References embedded in the original CVE record by the assigning CNA.
None in the CVE record.
Web references (7)
DuckDuckGo results ranked by threat-intel / vendor advisory domains. Generated by the 🔎 Find references (web) button above — same flow as the Remediations search.
- https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/digital-publications-by-supsystic.1.6.9.zip tenable:downloads.wordpress.org
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-37245 tenable:nvd.nist.gov
- https://supsystic.com/ tenable:supsystic.com
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-37245 tenable:www.cve.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49542 tenable:www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.first.org/epss/ tenable:www.first.org
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-plugin-supsystic-digital-publications-path-traversal-xss tenable:www.vulncheck.com
NVD-tagged references (4)
Reference list NVD curates from the CNA record, vendor advisories, and third-party reports. The tag chips below are NVD's analyst-assigned categories.
- https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/digital-publications-by-supsystic.1.6.9.zip disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://supsystic.com/ disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49542 disclosure@vulncheck.com
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/wordpress-plugin-supsystic-digital-publications-path-traversal-xss disclosure@vulncheck.com
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Remediations are stored against the linked Threat row; the list below is deduplicated across both pages.
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web:nvd.nist.gov
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CVE CVE-2020-37245 - Score : 8.7 - Source : disclosure@vulncheck.com - Description : Supsystic Digital Publications 1.6.9 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Folder input field that allows attackers to access files outside the web root by injecting directory traversal sequences. Additionally, the plugin fails to sanitize input fields in publication settings, allowing stored cross ...
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web:www.cisa.gov
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web:www.cve.org
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