CVE-2023-38398

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-38398 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting Taboola plugin versions up to and including 2.0.1. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows an unauthenticated attacker to potentially achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through a low-complexity network attack requiring user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:tablooa:tablooa::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

1.4

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.21%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

11.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0021 is in the 11th percentile among its peer group of 14,875 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/taboola/wordpress-taboola-plugin-2-0-1-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability

Third Party Advisory