CVE-2022-38703

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38703 is an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the MaxButtons plugin (versions <= 9.2) for WordPress. With a CVSS score of 4.8 (Medium), this vulnerability requires administrative privileges (PR:H) to exploit, involves user interaction (UI:R), and could lead to low confidentiality and integrity impacts (C:L/I:L). 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
		<= 9.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:maxfoundry:maxbuttons::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.4LOW

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.7

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.44%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

36.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 4,931 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

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/maxbuttons/wordpress-wordpress-button-plugin-maxbuttons-plugin-9-2-authenticated-stored-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability/_s_id=cve

Broken Link

wordpress.org / plugins/maxbuttons

Release Notes