Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36728

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 07 June 2023

Published
07 June 2023
Modified
08 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.7287 98.8th percentile
Risk Priority 57 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36728 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Tunasite Adning Advertising. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 1.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Adning Advertising plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to file deletion via path traversal in versions up to, and including, 1.5.5. This allows unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files which can be used to reset and gain full control of…

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a site.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

tunasite
adning advertising
≤ 1.5.6

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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