CVE-2017-18561

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2017-18561 · Published 21/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-18561 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting embed images in comments (embed images in comments project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.91%, higher than 60.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.6 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
embed images in comments embed_images_in_comments_project	`< 0.6`	`0.6`

The embed-comment-images plugin before 0.6 for WordPress has XSS.

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