ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce Plugin up to 5.122.0 on WordPress Image Attachment Feature wp_ajax_nopriv_cr_upload_local_images_frontend Comment Author Name cross site scripting

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce Plugin up to 5.122.0. The affected element is the function wp_ajax_nopriv_cr_upload_local_images_frontend of the component Image Attachment Feature. Such manipulation of the argument Comment Author Name leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-97663. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce Plugin up to 5.122.0. Affected by this issue is the function wp_ajax_nopriv_cr_upload_local_images_frontend of the component Image Attachment Feature. The manipulation of the argument Comment Author Name 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 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name in all versions up to, and including, 5.122.0 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. This requires the image attachment feature (ivole_attach_image) to be enabled, which allows unauthenticated attackers to both submit a review with an entity-encoded malicious author name and upload an attached image via the publicly accessible wp_ajax_nopriv_cr_upload_local_images_frontend endpoint.

The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-97663 since 09/24/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• ivole

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• Customer Reviews for WooCommerce Plugin

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• 5.122

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