CVE-2017-20174
bastianallgeier Kirby Webmentions Plugin injection
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- VulDB
Description
A vulnerability was found in bastianallgeier Kirby Webmentions Plugin and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to injection. The attack may be launched remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The patch is identified as 55bedea78ae9af916a9a41497bd9996417851502. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-218894 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By VulDB
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.83% · top 42% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.6.
Weakness
Affected products
bastianallgeier · Kirby Webmentions Plugin
- affected n/a
References (3)
- https://vuldb.com/?id.218894 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218894 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_transferred
- https://github.com/bastianallgeier/kirby-webmentions/commit/55bedea78ae9af916a9a41497bd9996417851502 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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