Exploitation Summary
CVE-2017-18496 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.
Description
The htaccess plugin before 1.7.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
Nuclei Templates (1)
Htaccess by BestWebSoft < 1.7.6 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMVERIFIEDby luisfelipe146
Shodan:
http.html:/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/
FOFA:
body=/wp-content/plugins/htaccess/
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/plugins/htaccess/#developers
Scores
CVSS v3
6.1
EPSS
0.0140
EPSS Percentile
68.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-79
Status
published
Products (1)
bestwebsoft/htaccess
< 1.7.6
Published
Aug 13, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026