What is CVE-2017-18520?

CVE-2017-18520 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp-Kama Democracy Poll, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-08-20.

How severe is CVE-2017-18520?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-18520 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wp-Kama Democracy Poll

CVE-2017-18520

The democracy-poll plugin before 5.4 for WordPress has XSS via update_l10n in admin/class.DemAdminInit.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-08-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (58.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 58.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wp-Kama Democracy Poll

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wordpress.org/plugins/democracy-poll/ (Release Notes)
www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/02/22/cross-site-request-forgery-csrfcross-s… (Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-18520?: CVE-2017-18520 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp-Kama Democracy Poll, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2017-18520?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-18520 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.