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CVE-2023-5609: Seraphinite Accelerator < 2.20.29 - Reflected XSS

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 24/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.44% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator 2.2.29.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator 2.2.29 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin before 2.2.29 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

MediumCVSS 6.1 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Nov 20, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 37th percentile

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Action score

24

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
24 / 40 · 6.1 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
s-solsseraphinite accelerator

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • s-sols seraphinite acceleratorbefore 2.2.29

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator

    • before 2.2.29affected · semver

Same product

s-sols: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-3058Seraphinite Accelerator <= 2.28.14 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
    26Monitor
  • CVE-2024-1568Seraphinite Accelerator <= 2.20.52 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Server-Side Request Forgery in OnAdminApi_HtmlCheck
    25Monitor
  • CVE-2023-49740WordPress Seraphinite Accelerator Plugin <= 2.20.28 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
    24Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • Later →CVE-2023-5610Nov 20, 2023 · Seraphinite Accelerator < 2.20.29 - Authenticated Arbitrary Redirect
    21Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2023-5611Nov 27, 2023 · Seraphinite Accelerator < 2.20.32 - Unauthorised Settings Reset/Import
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Unknown Seraphinite Accelerator2.2.29Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2023-4974024 days apartWordPress Seraphinite Accelerator Plugin <= 2.20.28 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
    24Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-79 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

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