CVE-2023-23864

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-23864 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Very Simple Google Maps plugin for WordPress, specifically versions 2.8.4 and earlier. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) allows authenticated contributors or higher to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to information disclosure or defacement. While no active exploitation, public exploits, or significant community discussion have been observed, organizations using the affected plugin should update to mitigate this risk.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 2.9CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:very_simple_google_maps_project:very_simple_google_maps::::::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

31.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 48th 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

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/very-simple-google-maps/wordpress-very-simple-google-maps-plugin-2-8-4-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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