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CVE-2017-20251

9.3 critical exploit Published

WordPress Insert PHP plugin versions before 3.3.1 contain a PHP code injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by injecting malicious shortcodes through the WordPress REST API. Attackers can send POST requests to the wp-json/wp/v2/posts endpoint with crafted content containing insert_php shortcodes to include and execute remote PHP files on the server.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Public exploits 1

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 9.3 · themeisleNVD modified 2026-10-29 20:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 3