CVE-2023-0079 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.17.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

What is CVE-2023-0079?

CVE-2023-0079 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Customer Reviews for WooCommerce, published on 16 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0079?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cusrev Customer Reviews for Woocommerce.

How do I fix CVE-2023-0079?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0079 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-2023-0079 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-0079 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Customer Reviews for WooCommerce

• CVE-2023-6979 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload High 8.8
• CVE-2023-0080 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.16.0 - Contributor+ LFI High 8.8
• CVE-2024-3731 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.47.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 's' Medium 6.1
• CVE-2024-1044 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review Medium 5.3
• CVE-2022-40194 WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability Medium 5.3

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-grw9-xhr2-wcp3.