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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

This CVE is actively exploited in the wild. CISA mandates federal agencies to patch immediately.

CVE

CVE-2020-17496

9.8

CVSScritical

Exploitable remotely over the internet · no authentication required.

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.

Attack Vector

Network

Privileges Req.

None

User Interaction

None

Updated Oct 12, 2026View on NVD →

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