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CVE-2017-15863

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15863 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wp-noexternallinks plugin for WordPress, affecting versions prior to 3.5.19. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker via the date1 or date2 parameters to wp-admin/options-general.php, requiring user interaction to execute malicious scripts and potentially leading to information disclosure or limited data manipulation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.5.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wp_no_external_links_project:wp_no_external_links:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0095 is in the 70th 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

lists.openwall.net / full-disclosure/2017/06/02/3
ExploitMailing ListThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
wordpress.org / plugins/wp-noexternallinks
Release NotesThird Party Advisory