CVE-2017-20174 is a critical injection vulnerability affecting the bastianallgeier Kirby Webmentions Plugin, specifically within an unspecified function. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows for remote attacks with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While exploitation is known to be difficult and the attack complexity is rather high, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage. A patch, identified as 55bedea78ae9af916a9a41497bd9996417851502, is available and recommended for remediation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2017-02-01CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:getkirby:webmentions:*:*:*:*:*:kirby:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.