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CVE-2023-6954

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-6954 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Download Manager Pro plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 3.2.85. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.4) allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions to inject malicious web scripts via shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization. Successful exploitation could lead to client-side script execution when a user views an affected page, potentially compromising user sessions or defacing content. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.2.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w3eden:download_manager:*:*:*:*:free: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
0.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0054 is in the 67th 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

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/download-manager/tags/3.2.83/src/Category/Shortcodes.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/download-manager/tags/3.2.83/src/Package/Shortcodes.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/download-manager/tags/3.2.83/src/Package/views/packages-shortcode.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/download-manager/tags/3.2.83/src/Package/views/packages-shortcode-toolbar.php
Product
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5cdd64a4-040b-4dc9-a8df-dbecfeb928c8
Third Party Advisory