Is CVE-2017-18356 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2017-18356 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2017-18356?

CVE-2017-18356 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2017-18356?

CVE-2017-18356 has an EPSS score of 1.96% (78th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2017-18356?

Upgrade woocommerce to 3.2.4 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2017-18356

HIGHEPSS 78th pctl

8.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In the Automattic WooCommerce plugin before 3.2.4 for WordPress, an attack is possible after gaining access to the target site with a user account that has at least Shop manager privileges. The attacker then constructs a specifically crafted string that will turn into a PHP object injection involving the includes/shortcodes/class-wc-shortcode-products.php WC_Shortcode_Products::get_products() use of cached queries within shortcodes.

CWE-94Code Injection

How to fix

Remediation Available

woocommerceNVD

Affected:< 3.2.4Fixed in:3.2.4CVE-2017-18356derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.96%probability of exploitation in 30 days

78thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 78% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

blog.ripstech.com

Release Notes1

woocommerce.wordpress.com

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CVE-2022-22954	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2021-22204	Medium	6.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2025-3248	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2012-0158	High	8.8	100%	KEV	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.