CVE-2018-8729
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Activity Log plugin before 2.4.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 5.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Activity Log plugin before 2.4.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript or HTML via a title that is not escaped.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB2 entries
- WordPress Plugin Activity Log 2.4.0 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44437webapps, phppublished 10 Apr 2018Not verified
- WordPress Plugin Activity Log 2.4.0 - Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 44409webapps, phppublished 5 Apr 2018Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 44437 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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)
- 5.3% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · 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
5
- https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/950c46b2290c991187ff3471640e9688b16908fb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1836276 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 44437 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/e7bcd12fcb0add82bed762a971f427a360664bd9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/aryo-activity-log/#developers (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-2018-20339 (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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