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Ultimate FAQ <= 1.8.29 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2020-7107Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.8.29Update to 1.8.30 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin ultimate-faqs

  1. Affected≤ 1.8.29
  2. Patched in1.8.30

Update to 1.8.30 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.8.29. Version 1.8.30 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.8.30, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ryan Knell.

The Ultimate FAQ plugin before 1.8.30 for WordPress allows XSS via Display_FAQ to Shortcodes/DisplayFAQs.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin

All 8
More vulnerabilities in Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.4.14Update to 2.5.0
CVE-2026-94391
Medium6.4Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via FAQ Content
≤2.4.7Update to 2.4.8
CVE-2026-4336
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤2.4.3Update to 2.4.4
CVE-2025-67590
Medium5.7Missing Authorization to Arbitrary FAQ Creation
<2.1.2Update to 2.1.2
CVE-2021-24968
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
<1.8.25Update to 1.8.25
CVE-2019-17233

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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