THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-28173
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-28173

Simple College vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Simple College Website 1.0 allows a user to conduct remote code execution via /alumni/admin/ajax.php?action=save_settings when uploading a malicious file using the image upload functionality, which is stored in /alumni/admin/assets/uploads/.
Affected vendor
Simple College Project
Affected product
Simple College
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-434 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Published
2021-03-31

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-28173

  • Confirm whether Simple College Project Simple College is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-28173.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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