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CVE-2018-8729

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Activity Log plugin before 2.4.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript or HTML via a title that is not escaped.

Affected products

• elemntor Activity Log – Monitor & Record User Changes: before 2.4.1 — fixed in 2.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: elemntor Activity Log – Monitor & Record User Changes 2.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/950c46b2290c991187ff3471640e9688b16908fb
• https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/e7bcd12fcb0add82bed762a971f427a360664bd9
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1836276
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/aryo-activity-log/#developers
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44437/
• https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/950c46b2290c991187ff3471640e9688b16908fb
• https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/e7bcd12fcb0add82bed762a971f427a360664bd9
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1836276
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/aryo-activity-log/#developers
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44437/

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