74cms - SQLi (CVE-2020-22208)

CVE-2020-22208 is a critical vulnerability in 74cms that allows for SQL injection through query manipulation in a specific backend script.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 27th of March 2025.

Data from the CrowdSec community indicates that exploitation of CVE-2020-22208 is highly selective and intelligence-driven. Threat actors use advanced reconnaissance and carefully choose their targets, often as part of sophisticated campaigns or advanced persistent threat operations. CrowdSec network telemetry also shows that exploitation of CVE-2020-22208 has significantly declined over the past week. Attack volumes are well below the long-term average, suggesting attackers are rapidly losing interest. The vulnerability appears to be falling out of active use across most threat landscapes.

Attempts to exploit this vulnerability typically involve requests to URLs containing /plus/ajax_street.php.