CVE-2017-20193 Product Vendors <= 2.0.35 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting

What is CVE-2017-20193?

CVE-2017-20193 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in WooCommerce Product Vendors, published on 16 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Product Vendors is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'vendor_description' parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.0.35 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-20193?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Woo Product Vendors.

How do I fix CVE-2017-20193?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-20193 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2017-20193 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-20193 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in WooCommerce Product Vendors

• CVE-2023-33331 WordPress WooCommerce Product Vendors Plugin <= 2.1.76 is vulnerable to SQL Injection High 8.5
• CVE-2023-35879 WordPress WooCommerce Product Vendors Plugin <= 2.1.78 is vulnerable to SQL Injection High 7.6
• CVE-2023-52186 WordPress WooCommerce Product Vendors plugin <= 2.2.2 - Unauthenticated Broken Access Control vulnerability Medium 5.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-whqq-5qx6-vwwf.