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CVE-2017-18634

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

The newspaper theme before 6.7.2 for WordPress has script injection via td_ads[header] to admin-ajax.php.

Affected products

• Newspaper: before 6.7.2 — fixed in 6.7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Newspaper 6.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/06/unwanted-shorte-st-ads-in-unpatched-newspaper-theme.html
• https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/06/unwanted-shorte-st-ads-in-unpatched-newspaper-theme.html

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