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CVE-2023-6495

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-6495 describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 5.30.9. This flaw, stemming from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allows authenticated administrators to inject malicious web scripts into admin settings. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.8 (Medium) and requires high privileges and user interaction, with potential for low impact on confidentiality and integrity. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, it specifically impacts multi-site WordPress installations or those with unfiltered_html disabled.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.30.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yarpp:yet_another_related_posts_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
18.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 19th percentile among its peer group of 4,931 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 / changeset
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d586e455-c73f-4916-a926-4d53699bb434
Third Party Advisory