{"id":"CVE-2017-14126","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14126","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:38:20.346Z","title":"The Participants Database plugin before 1.7.5.10 for WordPress has XSS.","description":"The Participants Database plugin before 1.7.5.10 for WordPress has XSS.","published":"2017-09-04T20:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:05:39.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-79"],"affected":["xnau/participants database"],"epss":{"score":0.02302,"percentile":0.83226,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":false,"firstPublished":"2017-09-01","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":42618,"kind":"exploit","title":"WordPress Plugin Participants Database < 1.7.5.10 - Cross-Site Scripting","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42618","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/php/webapps/42618.txt","file":"exploits/php/webapps/42618.txt","published":"2017-09-01","added":"2017-09-05","updated":"2017-09-05","author":"Benjamin Lim","type":"webapps","platform":"php","port":null,"verified":false,"codes":["CVE-2017-14126"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":"http://www.exploit-db.comparticipants-database.1.7.5.9.zip","screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 2.3%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://limbenjamin.com/articles/cve-2017-14126-participants-database-xss.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/#developers","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42618/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://limbenjamin.com/articles/cve-2017-14126-participants-database-xss.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/#developers","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42618/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14126","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}