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CVE-2017-18593

• 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: 2019-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The updraftplus plugin before 1.13.5 for WordPress has XSS in rare cases where an attacker controls a string logged to a log file.

Affected products

• UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin: before 1.13.5 — fixed in 1.13.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin 1.13.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/#developers
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/updraftplus/#developers

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