CVE-2023-28690 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WP BrowserUpdate plugin by Marco Steinbrecher, specifically versions 4.5 and earlier. This medium-severity vulnerability, rated 4.8 on CVSS, requires administrator-level authentication and user interaction for exploitation, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts that could impact other administrative users. While the vulnerability has a low EPSS score and FAUCET Risk Score, indicating a low likelihood of exploitation, there is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has not been observed in active exploitation or received significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:marcosteinbrecher:wp_browserupdate:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.