# CVE-2022-38470: WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

> An attacker can trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Sep 2022
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rpm3-vf32-w565

## What is CVE-2022-38470?

CVE-2022-38470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CusRev Customer Reviews for WooCommerce (WordPress plugin), published on 23 Sep 2022. 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

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 at WordPress.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38470?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cusrev Customer Reviews for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-38470?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38470 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-38470 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38470 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in CusRev Customer Reviews for WooCommerce (WordPress plugin)

- [CVE-2023-6979](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-6979/): Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-0080](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0080/): Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.16.0 - Contributor+ LFI (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-3731](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3731/): Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.47.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 's' (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-0079](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0079/): Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.17.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-1044](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1044/): Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-38470 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-38470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CusRev Customer Reviews for WooCommerce (WordPress plugin), published on 23 Sep 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38470 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: CusRev Customer Reviews for WooCommerce (WordPress plugin). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38470/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38470/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38470
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38470
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38470

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-38470/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.