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Companion Auto Update <= 3.2.0 — Local File Inclusion

CVE-2018-20973Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <3.2.1Update to 3.2.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-98 Local File Inclusion
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Companion Auto Update companion-auto-update

  1. Affected< 3.2.1
  2. Patched in3.2.1

Update to 3.2.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 3.2.1. Version 3.2.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Companion Auto Update.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 3.2.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Companion Auto Update to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The companion-auto-update plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress has local file inclusion via $_GET['tab'].'.php' parameter in /companion-auto-update.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Companion Auto Update

All 4
More vulnerabilities in Companion Auto Update
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.5Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via update_delay_days parameter
≤3.9.2Update to 3.9.3
CVE-2025-4369
High7.2Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection
<3.3.6Update to 3.3.6
—
High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery
<3.2.1Update to 3.2.1
CVE-2018-20972

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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