CVE-2017-17827 — Piwigo 2

Piwigo 2.9.2 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via /admin.php?page=configuration&section=main or /admin.php?page=batch_manager&mode=unit. An attacker can exploit this to coerce an admin user into performing unintended actions.

01What is this vulnerability?

Piwigo 2.9.2 is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via /admin.php?page=configuration&section=main or /admin.php?page=batch_manager&mode=unit. An attacker can exploit this to coerce an admin user into performing unintended actions.

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2017-12-21T04:29:00.463
• Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/c3b4c6f7f0ddeaea492080fb8211d7b4cfedaf6f
• github.com — https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/822
• github.com — https://github.com/sahildhar/sahildhar.github.io/blob/master/research/reports/Pi…
• github.com — https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/commit/c3b4c6f7f0ddeaea492080fb8211d7b4cfedaf6f
• github.com — https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo/issues/822
• github.com — https://github.com/sahildhar/sahildhar.github.io/blob/master/research/reports/Pi…