CVE-2017-20207 is a critical PHP Object Injection vulnerability affecting the Flickr Gallery plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 1.5.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject PHP objects via the 'pager' parameter due to insecure deserialization of untrusted input. With a CVSS score of 9.8, the vulnerability poses a severe risk, enabling remote code execution and potentially leading to full system compromise. While there is no public exploit code available on Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, attackers were actively exploiting this vulnerability to create backdoors using the WP_Theme() class. Despite active exploitation, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dancoulter:flickr_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 0, < 1.5.3CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:dancoulter:flickr_gallery:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.