CVE-2017-20177

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2017-20177 · Published 06/02/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-20177 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting wangguard (wangguard project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.64%, higher than 50.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wangguard wangguard_project	`= 1.8.0`	No fix yet

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WangGuard Plugin 1.8.0 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is the function wangguard_users_info of the file wangguard-user-info.php of the component WGG User List Handler. The manipulation of the argument userIP leads to cross site scripting. The attack may be launched remotely. The patch is identified as 88414951e30773c8d2ec13b99642688284bf3189. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-220214 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

References

joseconti/WangGuard commit 8841495 · Patch
joseconti/WangGuard#14 · Issue Tracking
vuldb.com · Permissions Required
vuldb.com · Third Party Advisory

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