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CVE-2017-6818

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.1 · Cross-site scripting (XSS)
6.1CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

In WordPress before 4.7.3 (wp-admin/js/tags-box.js), there is cross-site scripting (XSS) via taxonomy term names.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)9%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.7.3 ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC