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CVE-2016-1160

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1160 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WP Favorite Posts plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 1.6.6. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through unspecified vectors, requiring user interaction but potentially leading to information disclosure or defacement. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wp_favorite_posts_project:wp_favorite_posts:*:*:*:*:*: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
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 26,209 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

jvndb.jvn.jp / jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000034
Third Party AdvisoryVDB EntryVendor Advisory
jvn.jp / en/jp/JVN86517621/index.html
Vendor Advisory
wordpress.org / plugins/wp-favorite-posts/changelog
PatchVendor Advisory