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WordPress Plugin: content-audit: CVE-2017-18560: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Sep 26, 2017

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Content Audit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery via the content_audit_save_bulk_edit AJAX action which allows for stored XSS payloads in versions up to, and including, 1.9.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.

Solution

content-audit-plugin-cve-2017-18560

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18560
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c801dfe6-a39f-4212-9cd7-71ef921c43ef?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-9676
CVE-2017-18560
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-18560
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2017-9676

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