CVE-2021-24296: WP Customer Reviews < 3.5.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-05-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled

Affected products

bompus WP Customer Reviews: before 3.5.6 — fixed in 3.5.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: bompus WP Customer Reviews 3.5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c450f54a-3372-49b2-8ad8-68d5cc0dd49e
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c450f54a-3372-49b2-8ad8-68d5cc0dd49e

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