{"id":"CVE-2017-20177","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-20177","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:18:46.662Z","title":"A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WangGuard Plugin 1.8.0 on WordPress.","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.","published":"2023-02-06T20:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:15:20.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cna@vuldb.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["wangguard project/wangguard"],"epss":{"score":0.00637,"percentile":0.50315,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.64%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/commit/88414951e30773c8d2ec13b99642688284bf3189","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/pull/14","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220214","tags":["Permissions Required","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/?id.220214","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/commit/88414951e30773c8d2ec13b99642688284bf3189","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/joseconti/WangGuard/pull/14","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220214","tags":["Permissions Required","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/?id.220214","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20177","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}