CVE-2018-8729 — Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Activity Log plugin b

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

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: 2018-03-15T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-11-14T20:48:12.262Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/950c46b2290c991187ff3471640e9688b1…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1836276
• www.exploit-db.com — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44437/
• github.com — https://github.com/pojome/activity-log/commit/e7bcd12fcb0add82bed762a971f427a360…
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/aryo-activity-log/#developers