What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18542

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The zendesk-help-center plugin before 1.0.5 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Affected products

• BestWebSoft Zendesk Help Center: before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: BestWebSoft Zendesk Help Center 1.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/zendesk-help-center/#developers
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/zendesk-help-center/#developers

Get alerted when CVE-2017-18542 or the next vulnerability affects your stack