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medium 6.1

CVE-2017-18598 json

The Qards plugin through 2017-10-11 for WordPress has XSS via a remote document specified in the url parameter to html2canvasproxy.php.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-9711

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

The Qards plugin through 2017-10-11 for WordPress has XSS via a remote document specified in the url parameter to html2canvasproxy.php.

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Exploit prediction

1.93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template WordPress Qards - Cross-Site Scripting nuclei detection template
  • wpvulndb.com https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8934 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.