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CVE-2017-18500

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-18500 describes multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the BestWebSoft social-buttons-pack plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 1.1.1. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), successful exploitation requires user interaction and could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. While no active exploitation or Metasploit modules are reported, Nuclei templates exist, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:social_buttons_pack:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2017-18500 · Oct 5, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

wordpress.org / plugins/social-buttons-pack
Release NotesVendor Advisory