CVE-2017-20177
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WangGuard Plugin 1.8.0 on WordPress.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.64%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.64% probability · 50th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- wangguard project/wangguard
- Source
- cna@vuldb.com
EPSS 0.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/commit/88414951e30773c8d2ec13b99642688284bf3189Patch
- https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/pull/14Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220214Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.220214Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/commit/88414951e30773c8d2ec13b99642688284bf3189Patch
- https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/pull/14Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220214Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://vuldb.com/?id.220214Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.