CVE-2023-0079: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.17.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2024-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.17.0 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.

Affected products

ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce: before 5.17.0 — fixed in 5.17.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce 5.17.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fdaba4d1-950d-4512-95de-cd43fe9e73e5/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/fdaba4d1-950d-4512-95de-cd43fe9e73e5/

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