CVE-2020-23986

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-23986 describes a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in GitHub Readme Stats, specifically in commit 3c7220e4f7144f6cb068fd433c774f6db47ccb95, through the renderError function. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) requires user interaction (UI:R) and could lead to low impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L/I:L) if exploited. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		1.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:github_readme_stats_project:github_readme_stats:1.0:::::::*

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

0.63%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

46.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

github.com / anuraghazra/github-readme-stats/pull/255

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