What is CVE-2020-23037?

CVE-2020-23037 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Portable Playable, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-10-22.

How severe is CVE-2020-23037?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Portable Playable

CVE-2020-23037

Portable Ltd Playable v9.18 contains a code injection vulnerability in the filename parameter, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted POST request.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published 2021-10-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Portable Playable — versions 9.18

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-23037?: CVE-2020-23037 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Portable Playable, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-10-22.
How severe is CVE-2020-23037?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.