Is CVE-2017-20287 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2017-20287?

CVE-2017-20287 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2017-20287

Description

Javo Spot theme for WordPress before 3.0.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the fn parameter of the jvfrm_spot_get_json AJAX action. Attackers can send GET requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with fn set to ../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and secret keys. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.