CVE-2020-27467

Processwire vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

15.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exits in Processwire CMS before 2.7.1 via the download parameter to index.php.

Affected vendor

Processwire

Affected product

Processwire

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2022-02-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 15.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Processwire Processwire is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-27467.
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