CVE-2018-18017 — XSS exists in the Tribulant Slideshow Gallery plugin 1

XSS exists in the Tribulant Slideshow Gallery plugin 1.6.8 for WordPress via the wp-admin/admin.php?page=slideshow-galleries&method=save Gallery[id] or Gallery[title] parameter.

01What is this vulnerability?

XSS exists in the Tribulant Slideshow Gallery plugin 1.6.8 for WordPress via the wp-admin/admin.php?page=slideshow-galleries&method=save Gallery[id] or Gallery[title] parameter.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-04-15T20:24:56.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:01:15.083Z

09References

• docs.google.com — https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rwN4hJkD5TJfCa16rsGwzYhzL-ODd2VLkFnPvAIq4Ys/…
• ansawaf.blogspot.com — https://ansawaf.blogspot.com/2019/04/xss-and-sqli-in-slideshow-gallery.html