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CVE-2020-35933

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-35933 is a Reflected Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Newsletter plugin for WordPress, specifically versions prior to 6.8.2. An authenticated attacker could trick a user into submitting a malicious AJAX request containing JavaScript, leading to client-side script execution. Rated as MEDIUM severity with a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability requires user interaction and authenticated access, potentially resulting in limited impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 6.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:thenewsletterplugin:newsletter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0085 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 15,225 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wordfence.com / blog/2020/08/newsletter-plugin-vulnerabilities-affect-over-300000-sites
ExploitThird Party Advisory