CVE•Published 2026-10-22•Modified 2026-10-23•0 articles on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2017-20289
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Broadstreet Ad Widget plugin for WordPress 2.2.0 before 2.12.0 contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that allows authenticated users to execute attacker-chosen PHP files by passing unsanitized input to require in views/modal/index.php. Attackers can supply directory traversal sequences in the 'step' parameter, optionally with a null byte, to include local files and execute PHP code. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.
Timeline
Published 2026-10-22
Modified 2026-10-23
External references
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Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2017-20289Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
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CVE-2017-20289Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
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Known PoCs on GitHub
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