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

> Contributors can inject malicious scripts via shortcode attributes in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin, leading to stored XSS.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Jan 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-grw9-xhr2-wcp3

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0079?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](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-2024-1044](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1044/): Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2022-40194](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40194/): WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-0079 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Unknown Customer Reviews for WooCommerce. 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-2023-0079/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0079/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0079
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0079
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-0079

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0079/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.