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CVE-2023-6561

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-6561 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 4.5.3. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts through the featured image alt text due to insufficient input sanitization. The CVSS score of 5.4 (MEDIUM) indicates a low-complexity attack requiring user interaction, 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 surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fifu:featured_image_from_url:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
36.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 55th 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

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/featured-image-from-url/trunk/admin/category.php
Patch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/featured-image-from-url/trunk/admin/meta-box.php
Patch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d4d5ae93-000e-4001-adfa-c11058032469
Third Party Advisory