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CVE-2017-18356

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18356 describes a PHP object injection vulnerability in the Automattic WooCommerce plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 3.2.4. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) allows an authenticated attacker with at least Shop manager privileges to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability) by crafting a malicious string that exploits cached queries within shortcodes. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:woocommerce:woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0196 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

blog.ripstech.com / 2018/woocommerce-php-object-injection
ExploitThird Party Advisory
woocommerce.wordpress.com / 2017/11/16/woocommerce-3-2-4-security-fix-release-notes
Release Notes