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CVE-2016-10973

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10973 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Brafton plugin for WordPress, specifically affecting versions prior to 3.4.8. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts via the 'tab' parameter in the admin interface, requiring user interaction to trigger. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code like Metasploit or ExploitDB, Nuclei templates exist for detection. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting low public awareness.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:brafton:brafton:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2016-10973 · Jun 25, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wpvulndb.com / vulnerabilities/8614
ExploitThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/20/5
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory