CVE-2023-48743

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-48743 describes a Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Paul Menard's Simply Exclude plugin, affecting versions up to and including 2.0.6.6. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.1) has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. 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
		<= 2.0.6.6CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:codehooligans:simply_exclude::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

1.6

Impact Score

3.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.36%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

28.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 26,220 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 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/simply-exclude/wordpress-simply-exclude-plugin-2-0-6-6-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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