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CVE-2023-50879

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-50879 is a Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Automattic WordPress.Com Editing Toolkit, affecting versions up to 3.78784. This flaw, categorized as Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79), allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts. With a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), it requires low privileges and user interaction (UI:R) to exploit, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.78784CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:automattic:wordpress.com_editing_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*: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
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 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/full-site-editing/wordpress-wordpress-com-editing-toolkit-plugin-3-78784-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability
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