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CVE-2017-18561

• 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: 2019-08-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The embed-comment-images plugin before 0.6 for WordPress has XSS.

Affected products

• Embed Images In Comments Project Embed Images In Comments: before 0.6 — fixed in 0.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Embed Images In Comments Project Embed Images In Comments 0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-comment-images/#developers
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-comment-images/#developers

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