CVE-2017-20252

HIGHPre-NVD 8.28.2
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 8.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-19. The CNA's CVSS baseline 8.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: the CNA's CVSS, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2017-18979 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 8.2Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

Joomla NextGen Editor 2.1.0 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands through the plname parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to index.php with option=com_nge&view=config and inject malicious SQL code in the plname parameter to extract sensitive database information.

CVSS v3
8.2
EG Score
8.2HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
68
EG Risk 68/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity82% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.2 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
41st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.2): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.2 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.2 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-02). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 19, 2026

Last Modified

October 27, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jun 19, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

Joomla NextGen Editor 2.1.0 SQL Injection via plname Parameter | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/joomla-nextgen-editor-sql-injection-via-plname-parameter
Web page

Joomla! Component NextGen Editor 2.1.0 - 'plname' SQL Injection - PHP webapps Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43365
Web page

NextGen Editor - Joomla! Extension Directory

https://extensions.joomla.org/extension/nextgen-editor/

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2017-20252(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 97 of 271 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 174 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-04 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  2. 2026-11-03 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  3. 2026-11-03 08:51 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-11-03 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  5. 2026-11-02 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  6. 2026-11-01 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
  7. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 41st percentile
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  11. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  12. 2026-10-27 01:13 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-27 01:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  14. 2026-10-26 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  15. 2026-10-25 19:35 UTCEG score recompute
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  19. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  20. 2026-10-22 03:29 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-22 03:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  22. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  23. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  24. 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  25. 2026-10-18 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-18 10:33 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-17 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-12 15:58 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-12 15:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  10. 2026-10-12 00:53 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
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  21. 2026-09-30 09:32 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-28 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 38th percentile
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  29. 2026-09-14 02:15 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-14 02:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  31. 2026-09-13 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
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  33. 2026-09-13 13:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  34. 2026-09-12 14:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
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  42. 2026-08-30 20:50 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-08-30 20:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  44. 2026-08-30 19:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
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  48. 2026-08-25 02:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  49. 2026-08-24 14:32 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-08-24 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  51. 2026-08-23 23:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  52. 2026-08-23 11:51 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-08-23 11:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  54. 2026-08-22 23:52 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-08-22 23:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  56. 2026-08-21 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  57. 2026-08-21 20:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  58. 2026-08-21 08:08 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-21 08:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  60. 2026-08-20 22:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 33rd percentile
  61. 2026-08-20 20:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  62. 2026-08-20 08:05 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-08-20 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  64. 2026-08-19 16:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  65. 2026-08-19 16:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  66. 2026-08-19 07:18 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-08-19 07:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
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  70. 2026-08-17 08:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2
  71. 2026-08-16 20:59 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-08-16 20:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-2xg7-x64v-q25q · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.2

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-20252?
CVE-2017-20252 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 19, 2026. Joomla NextGen Editor 2.1.0 contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands through the plname parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to index.php with option=com_nge&view=config and inject malicious SQL code in the plname…
When was CVE-2017-20252 made public?
CVE-2017-20252 was made public on December 19, 2017: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 19, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 27, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-20252 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-20252 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (41st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-20252?
CVE-2017-20252 has a CVSS base score of 8.2 (the CNA's own assessment, by vulncheck; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-20252?
No fix for CVE-2017-20252 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2017-20252 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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