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CVE-2017-20086

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-20086 is a critical code injection vulnerability affecting VaultPress Plugin version 1.8.4, developed by Automattic. This flaw allows a remote attacker to inject malicious code, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the CVSS score is 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a significant risk, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion, suggesting it is not currently a widespread threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:automattic:vaultpress:1.8.4:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0100 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2017/Feb/95
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
vuldb.com
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry