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CVE-2020-28173
Simple College Website 1.0 allows a user to conduct remote code execution via /alumni/admin/ajax.php?action=save_settings when uploading a…
High7.2EPSS 3.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Simple College Website 1.0 allows a user to conduct remote code execution via /alumni/admin/ajax.php?action=save_settings when uploading a malicious file using the image upload functionality, which is stored in /alumni/admin/assets/uploads/.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/2010-exploits/simplecollegewebsite10-sqlexec.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14548/simple-college-website-using-htmlphpmysqli-source-code.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/oretnom23/simple-college-website.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/yunaranyancat/poc-dump/blob/main/simplecollegewebsite/sqli_rce.py (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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