CVE-2023-40668

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-40668 is an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Pdfcrowd Save as PDF plugin versions up to 2.16.0. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) requires administrator privileges and user interaction for exploitation, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:pdfcrowd:save_as_pdf::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

1.7

Impact Score

3.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.34%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

26.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 4,931 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/save-as-pdf-by-pdfcrowd/wordpress-save-as-pdf-plugin-by-pdfcrowd-plugin-2-16-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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