6.4

CVE-2023-0177: unknown social like box and page by wpdevart Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.4v3.1MediumModified
Published 13-02-2023Last modified 20-03-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-0177 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in unknown social like box and page by wpdevart. EPSS estimates a 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 0.8.41.

Overall risk
36/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
0.48%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 13-02-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Social Like Box and Page by WpDevArt WordPress plugin before 0.8.41 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.48%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

40%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.48% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.48%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Unknown1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • like-box≤ 0.8.40 (fixed in 0.8.41)
Wpdevart1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links