What is CVE-2016-10993?

CVE-2016-10993 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Scoreme Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-09-17.

How severe is CVE-2016-10993?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2016-10993 known to be exploited?

5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Scoreme Project

CVE-2016-10993

The ScoreMe theme through 2016-04-01 for WordPress has XSS via the s parameter.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-09-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.028 (85.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 85.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.028 · newest: 0.028 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Scoreme Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8431
www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10993?: CVE-2016-10993 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Scoreme Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2019-09-17.
How severe is CVE-2016-10993?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2016-10993 known to be exploited?: 5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.