CVE-2023-45609

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-45609 describes a Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the POWR.Io Contact Form plugin, affecting versions up to and including 2.1.0. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) allows an authenticated attacker to inject malicious scripts, which could lead to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity if a user interacts with the crafted content. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:powr:powr_pack::::::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

0.38%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

30.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0038 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 15,222 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/powr-pack/wordpress-powr-pack-plugin-2-1-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Third Party Advisory