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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2020-36171

CVE-2020-36171: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Elementor Website Builder plugin before version 3.0.14 for WordPress contains a vulnerability (CVE-2020-36171) related to improper restriction of SVG uploads. The vulnerability was disclosed on January 6, 2021 (NVD, CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges, but requires user interaction. The scope is changed, with low impacts on both confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability could potentially allow attackers to upload malicious SVG files, which could lead to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. This is evidenced by the CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) classification (NVD).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires user interaction and is network-accessible. No known exploits have been publicly reported at the time of assessment (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to Elementor Website Builder version 3.0.14 or later to address this vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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