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CVE-2017-18634

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18634 describes a critical script injection vulnerability affecting the tagDiv Newspaper theme for WordPress, specifically versions prior to 6.7.2. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts via the td_ads[header] parameter to admin-ajax.php. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), successful exploitation could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. While no public exploits, Metasploit modules, or KEV entries exist, and community discussion is minimal, the high severity warrants immediate patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tagdiv:newspaper:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0217 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

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