CVE-2025-5720: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.80.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via `author` Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘author’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.80.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce: through 5.80.2

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-reviews-woocommerce/tags/5.78.1/includes/reviews/class-cr-reviews-list-table.php#L1033
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-reviews-woocommerce/tags/5.78.1/includes/reviews/class-cr-reviews-list-table.php#L1052
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/customer-reviews-woocommerce/tags/5.78.1/includes/reviews/class-cr-reviews-list-table.php#L1073
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6126ec74-d522-45ff-aa03-07aad5fb75b9?source=cve

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