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CVE-2017-18609

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The magic-fields plugin before 1.7.2 for WordPress has XSS via the custom-write-panel-id parameter.

Affected products

• Magicfields Magic Fields: before 1.7.2 — fixed in 1.7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Magicfields Magic Fields 1.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_scripting_in_magic_fields_1_wordpress_plugin.html
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-fields/#developers
• https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_scripting_in_magic_fields_1_wordpress_plugin.html
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-fields/#developers

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