CVE-2023-23687

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-23687 is an authenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Youtube shortcode plugin versions up to and including 1.8.5. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) requires low privileges and user interaction, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts that could lead to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no public exploit code available, no evidence of active exploitation, and minimal community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low immediate threat level.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 1.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:youtube_shortcode_project:youtube_shortcode::::::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

0.39%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

32.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-28

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 48th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 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/youtube-shortcode/wordpress-youtube-shortcode-plugin-1-8-5-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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