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CVE-2020-17496
CWE-74
Critical
103.7
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
vBulletin 5.5.4 through 5.6.2 allows remote command execution via crafted subWidgets data in an ajax/render/widget_tabbedcontainer_tab_panel request. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16759.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 87.36%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Nov 2021
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-74
- Published
- 12 Aug 2020
- Last modified 7 Nov 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time