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CVE-2023-5663

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5663 is a high-severity SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the News Announcement Scroll plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 9.0.0. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious SQL queries, potentially leading to the extraction of sensitive database information. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH) due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, <= 9.0.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:storeapps:news_announcement_scroll:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
< 9.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:storeapps:news_announcement_scroll:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0077 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/news-announcement-scroll/tags/9.0.0/news-announcement-scroll.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/2987837/news-announcement-scroll
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b29113d6-7a9a-4e10-a446-147ec146ac93
Third Party Advisory