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CVE-2024-1044: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'submit_review' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.38.12. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit reviews with arbitrary email addresses regardless of whether reviews are globally enabled.

Affected products

• ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce: before 5.39.0 — fixed in 5.39.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce 5.39.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fcustomer-reviews-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F5.38.12&old=3032310&new_path=%2Fcustomer-reviews-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F5.39.0&new=3032310&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4420c334-1ea4-4549-b391-150702abc2f8?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fcustomer-reviews-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F5.38.12&old=3032310&new_path=%2Fcustomer-reviews-woocommerce%2Ftags%2F5.39.0&new=3032310&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4420c334-1ea4-4549-b391-150702abc2f8?source=cve

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