What is CVE-2023-6081?

CVE-2023-6081 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Chartjs Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-02-12.

How severe is CVE-2023-6081?

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

Is CVE-2023-6081 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Chartjs Project

CVE-2023-6081

The chartjs WordPress plugin through 2023.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-02-12 · 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: 0.004 (30.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Chartjs Project
Chartjs — versions 2023.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/5f011911-5fd1-46d9-b468-3062b4ec6f1e/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)
lynk.nl/ (Not Applicable)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-6081?: CVE-2023-6081 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Chartjs Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-02-12.
How severe is CVE-2023-6081?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-6081 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.