Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2023-5126

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5126 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Delete Me plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 3.0. It allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages due to insufficient input sanitization. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), indicating a network attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to low 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 surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, <= 3.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:cmc3215:delete_me:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
<= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cmc3215:delete_me:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 15,225 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

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/delete-me/tags/3.0/inc/shortcode.php
Patch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/2994298/delete-me
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7a5123a7-8eb4-481e-88fe-6310be37a077
Third Party Advisory