CVE-2018-16259
There is an XSS vulnerability in WP All Import plugin 3.4.9 for WordPress via pmxi-admin-settings large_feed_limit. NOTE: The vendor…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.89%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
There is an XSS vulnerability in WP All Import plugin 3.4.9 for WordPress via pmxi-admin-settings large_feed_limit. NOTE: The vendor states that this is not a vulnerability. WP All Import is only able to be used by a logged in administrator, and the action described can only be taken advantage of by a logged in administrator
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.89% · top 40% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lfk0YQMIhlMCOOvVRX8HkU6C50s9QSW7C-9gnNmzsHY/edit?usp=sharing (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ansawaf.blogspot.com/2019/04/xss-in-import-any-xml-or-csv-file-for.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-8111 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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