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CVE-2017-20177 — A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WangGuar

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 us

CVSS
4.0 CISA
EPSS
0.33% (top 44.50%)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
2023-02-06T20:00:06.083Z
Last modified
2025-03-05T19:27:18.880Z
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / WangGuard Plugin1.8.0

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

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

09References

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