CVE-2023-22718

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-22718 is a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting versions up to 3.4.9 of the Jason Lau User Meta Manager plugin. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users, requiring user interaction to trigger. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code or significant community discussion, the vulnerability could lead to information disclosure or defacement.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 3.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:user_meta_manager_project:user_meta_manager::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

3.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.41%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

33.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 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

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/user-meta-manager/wordpress-user-meta-manager-plugin-3-4-9-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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