CVE-2020-20640
Published: 28 June 2021
Summary
CVE-2020-20640 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Shopex Ecshop. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 37.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2020-13425
Vulnerability details
Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ECShop 4.0 due to security filtering issues, in the user.php file, we can use the html entity encoding to bypass the security policy of the safety.php file, triggering the xss vulnerability.
- 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.