The File Manager (wp-file-manager) plugin before 6.9 for WordPress allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code because it renames an unsafe example elFinder connector file to have the .php extension. This, for example, allows attackers to run the elFinder upload (or mkfile and put) command to write PHP code into the wp-content/plugins/wp-file-manager/lib/files/ directory. This was exploited in the wild in August and September 2020.
CVE-2020-25213
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 10.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2021-11-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 10.0 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2020-17903 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
- CVSS v3
- 10.0
- EG Score
- 10.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 100EG Risk 100/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity100% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 10.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high. - EPSS PROB
- 97%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (10.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 10.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 10.0 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 97% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation sooner than your normal schedule at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25213
Published
September 9, 2020
Last Modified
November 7, 2025
Advisory Details (6)
Auto-updated Nov 1, 2026Packet Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160003/WordPress-File-Manager-6.8-Remote-Code-Execution.htmlMillions of WordPress sites are being probed and attacked with recent plugin bug - ZDNET
https://zdnet.com/article/millions-of-wordpress-sites-are-being-probed-attacked-with-recent-plugin-bug/File Manager – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-manager/#developersZero-Day Vulnerability in WP File Manager Found by Seravo
https://seravo.com/blog/0-day-vulnerability-in-wp-file-manager/GitHub - w4fz5uck5/wp-file-manager-0day: wp-file-manager 6.7 (Aug 2020) Wordpress Plugin 0day - Remote Code Execution · GitHub
https://github.com/w4fz5uck5/wp-file-manager-0dayWeakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 103× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 973 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 873 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 15:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-31 17:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-30 19:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-29 20:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-29 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-28 22:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 22:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 23:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 23:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 01:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 01:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-26 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 18:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-25 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-24 05:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 05:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-23 06:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-22 08:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 08:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-21 09:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 09:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 10:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 10:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-19 12:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 12:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 13:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 09:27 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-17 15:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 01:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 01:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-15 02:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 04:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 04:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 97% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 05:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 19:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 02:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 22:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 22:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-11 18:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-11 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 06:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-10 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-09 06:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 22:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-08 06:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 14:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 06:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 02:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-06 22:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-06 18:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-06 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-06 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-06 06:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-06 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-05 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-05 18:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-05 14:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-05 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-05 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-05 02:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-04 22:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-04 18:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-04 14:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-04 10:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-04 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-w774-7g7w-83fx · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
Publicly available exploits
(8 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 Exploit-DB entries, 4 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.
- Exploit-DBEDB-51224✓ verifiedPublished Apr 3, 2023
WP-file-manager v6.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload leading to RCE
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/multi/http/wp_file_manager_rce✓ verifiedPublished Nov 10, 2020
WordPress File Manager Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCMaalfer/CVE-2020-25213-exploitPublished Oct 14, 2026
Exploit para explotar la vulnerabilidad CVE-2020-25213 en WPFileManager < 6.9
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCE1tex/Python-CVE-2020-25213Published Aug 2, 2023
Python Interactive Exploit for WP File Manager Vulnerability. The File Manager (wp-file-manager) plugin before 6.9 for WordPress allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code because it renames an unsafe example elFinder connector file to have the .php extension.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCBLY-Coder/Python-exploit-CVE-2020-25213Published Jan 22, 2023
Python exploit for RCE in Wordpress
Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2020/CVE-2020-25213.yamlPublished Feb 11, 2021
WordPress File Manager Plugin - Remote Code Execution
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-49178Published Dec 2, 2020
WordPress Plugin Wp-FileManager 6.8 - RCE
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCmansoorr123/wp-file-manager-CVE-2020-25213Published Oct 10, 2020
https://medium.com/@mansoorr/exploiting-cve-2020-25213-wp-file-manager-wordpress-plugin-6-9-3f79241f0cd8
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