CVE-2023-0942: Japanized For WooCommerce <= 2.5.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Japanized For WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tab’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.5.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

shoheitanaka Japanized for WooCommerce: through 2.5.4

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-for-japan/trunk/includes/admin/views/html-admin-setting-screen.php#L63
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868545%40woocommerce-for-japan%2Ftrunk&old=2863064%40woocommerce-for-japan%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/03/multiple-reflected-cross-site-scripting-vulnerabilities-in-three-wordpress-plugins-patched/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb606a30-2f7c-41e9-9ebc-9f1b0b84fff8?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-for-japan/trunk/includes/admin/views/html-admin-setting-screen.php#L63
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2868545%40woocommerce-for-japan%2Ftrunk&old=2863064%40woocommerce-for-japan%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb606a30-2f7c-41e9-9ebc-9f1b0b84fff8

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