CVE-2023-0080: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.16.0 - Contributor+ LFI

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.16.0 does not validate one of its shortcode attribute, which could allow users with a contributor role and above to include arbitrary files via a traversal attack. This could also allow them to read non PHP files and retrieve their content. RCE could also be achieved if the attacker manage to upload a malicious image containing PHP code, and then include it via the affected attribute, on a default WP install, authors could easily achieve that given that they have the upload_file capability.

Affected products

ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce: before 5.16.0 — fixed in 5.16.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce 5.16.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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