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CVE-2023-40197

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-40197 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting versions of the Devaldi Ltd flowpaper plugin up to and including 1.9.9. This medium-severity vulnerability, rated 5.4 CVSS, allows authenticated contributors to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to information disclosure or unauthorized actions. While the attack complexity is low and requires user interaction, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:flowpaper:flowpaper:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
<= 1.9.9CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:flowpaper:pdf2json:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
3.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 15,239 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

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/flowpaper-lite-pdf-flipbook/wordpress-flowpaper-plugin-1-9-9-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability
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