CVE-2018-7747
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Caldera Forms plugin before 1.6.0-rc.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to…
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 4.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Caldera Forms plugin before 1.6.0-rc.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) a greeting message, (2) the email transaction log, or (3) an imported form.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Caldera Forms 1.5.9.1 - Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44489webapps, phppublished 18 Apr 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44489 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 44 days later
· 44 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- https://calderaforms.com/2018/03/caldera-forms-1-6-is-here/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/#developers (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/147257/WordPress-Caldera-Forms-1.5.9.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://calderaforms.com/updates/caldera-forms-1-6-0/#security (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 44489 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2018-19462 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-7747)Record last updated .