What is CVE-2018-16729?

CVE-2018-16729 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pluck-Cms Pluck, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-09-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-16729?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Pluck-Cms Pluck

CVE-2018-16729

Pluck 4.7.7 allows XSS via an SVG file that contains Javascript in a SCRIPT element, and is uploaded via pages->manage under admin.php?action=files.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-09-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (47.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 47.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Pluck-Cms Pluck — versions 4.7.7

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/pluck-cms/pluck/issues/63 (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16729?: CVE-2018-16729 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pluck-Cms Pluck, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2018-09-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-16729?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.