CVE-2018-6194

MEDIUM 4.8CVE-2018-6194 · Published 30/01/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-6194 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.8) vulnerability affecting splashing images (splashing images project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 63.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.1.1 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
splashing images splashing_images_project	`< 2.1.1`	`2.1.1`

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/partials/wp-splashing-admin-sidebar.php in the Splashing Images plugin (wp-splashing-images) before 2.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the search parameter to wp-admin/upload.php.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/146109/WordPress-Splashing-Images-2.1-Cross-Site-Scripting-PHP-Object-Injection.html · Exploit
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jan/91 · Exploit
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1807349/wp-splashing-images · Patch
wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9016 · Third Party Advisory

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