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CVE-2023-5234: Related Products for WooCommerce <= 3.3.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

• 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: none known
• Published: 2023-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Related Products for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'woo-related' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.3.15 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• peachpay Related Products for WooCommerce: through 3.3.15

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-related-products-refresh-on-reload/tags/3.3.15/woo-related-products.php#L303
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2988185/woo-related-products-refresh-on-reload
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a98498b8-9397-42e9-9c99-a576975c9ac9?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-related-products-refresh-on-reload/tags/3.3.15/woo-related-products.php#L303
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2988185/woo-related-products-refresh-on-reload
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a98498b8-9397-42e9-9c99-a576975c9ac9?source=cve

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