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CVE-2017-18520

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-08-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The democracy-poll plugin before 5.4 for WordPress has XSS via update_l10n in admin/class.DemAdminInit.php.

Affected products

• Wp-Kama Democracy Poll: before 5.4 — fixed in 5.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Wp-Kama Democracy Poll 5.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/democracy-poll/#developers
• https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/02/22/cross-site-request-forgery-csrfcross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-democracy-poll/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/democracy-poll/#developers
• https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/02/22/cross-site-request-forgery-csrfcross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-democracy-poll/

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