CVE-2017-20158
Published: 31 December 2022
Summary
CVE-2017-20158 is a low-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Yii2 Fileapi Widget Project Yii2 Fileapi Widget. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).
Operationally, ranked in the top 40.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-7661
Vulnerability details
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** A vulnerability was found in vova07 Yii2 FileAPI Widget up to 0.1.8. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function run of the file actions/UploadAction.php. The manipulation of the argument…
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file leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.1.9 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is c00d1e4fc912257fca1fce66d7a163bdbb4c8222. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier VDB-217141 was assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.