CVE-2017-18565

MEDIUM NUCLEI

BestWebSoft Updater < 1.35 - Cross-Site Scripting

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2017-18565 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.

Description

The updater plugin before 1.35 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Nuclei Templates (1)

Updater by BestWebSoft < 1.35 - Cross-Site Scripting
MEDIUMVERIFIEDby luisfelipe146
Shodan: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/updater/
FOFA: body=/wp-content/plugins/updater/

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Release Notes x_refsource_misc
https://wordpress.org/plugins/updater/#developers

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1
EPSS 0.0139
EPSS Percentile 68.7%
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/updater < 1.35
Published Aug 21, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026