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high 8.8

CVE-2020-24949 in the critical feed json

Privilege escalation in PHP-Fusion 9.03.50 downloads/downloads.php allows an authenticated user (not admin) to send a crafted request to th…

published 2020-09-03 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-17650

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
67.5%
EPSS 67.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

Privilege escalation in PHP-Fusion 9.03.50 downloads/downloads.php allows an authenticated user (not admin) to send a crafted request to the server and perform remote command execution (RCE).

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-49911)

Exploit prediction

67.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-49911 PHPFusion 9.03.50 - Remote Code Execution webapps, 2021-05-28
  • Nuclei template PHP-Fusion 9.03.50 - Remote Code Execution nuclei detection template
  • github.com https://github.com/php-fusion/PHP-Fusion/issues/2312 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162852/PHPFusion-9.03.50-Remote-Code-Execution.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.