CVE-2020-1460: Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint Server when it fails to properly identify and filter unsafe ASP.Net web controls. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted page to perform actions in the security context of the SharePoint application pool process.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated user must create and invoke a specially crafted page on an affected version of Microsoft SharePoint Server.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft SharePoint Server handles processing of created content.</p>

Affected products

• Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server: version 2013 only; version 2016 only
• Microsoft SharePoint Foundation: version 2010 only; version 2013 only
• Microsoft SharePoint Server: version 2019 only

Published 2020-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.