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CVE-2023-1028

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-1028 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Meta SEO plugin for WordPress, affecting versions up to and including 4.5.3. This flaw stems from inadequate nonce validation in the setIgnore function, allowing unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin options. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a low impact on integrity (I:L) and requiring user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation. There is 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
<= 4.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:joomunited:wp_meta_seo:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
>= 0, <= 4.5.3CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:joomunited:wp_meta_seo:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6b978749-7ea5-45f4-9f69-66a19c0e39ca
Broken Link
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/2870465/wp-meta-seo/tags/4.5.4/inc/class.metaseo-admin.php
Patch
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/2870465/wp-meta-seo/trunk
Patch
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6b978749-7ea5-45f4-9f69-66a19c0e39ca