WooCommerce Customer Reviews Plugin up to 5.16.x on WordPress Shortcode Attribute cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in WooCommerce Customer Reviews Plugin up to 5.16.x on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-0079. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in WooCommerce Customer Reviews Plugin up to 5.16.x on WordPress (E-Commerce Management Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.17.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

The weakness was shared 01/16/2024 by Lana Codes. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-0079 since 01/05/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 5.17.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-12180). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Customer Reviews Plugin 5.17.0

Timelineinfo

01/05/2023 🔍
01/16/2024 +376 days 🔍
01/16/2024 +0 days 🔍
06/03/2025 +504 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Researcher: Lana Codes
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-0079 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-0079
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-250844
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Entryinfo

Created: 01/16/2024 18:10
Updated: 06/03/2025 05:15
Changes: 01/16/2024 18:10 (43), 02/06/2024 09:35 (11), 06/02/2025 18:32 (16), 06/03/2025 05:15 (1)
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