CVE-2023-0992 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Shield Security plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 17.0.17. Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious web scripts into pages by manipulating the 'User-Agent' header. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) has a low attack complexity and can lead to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity when a user accesses an affected page. While the FAUCET Risk Score is high at 91/100, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 17.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:getshieldsecurity:shield_security:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.