# CVE-2023-0080: Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.16.0 - Contributor+ LFI

> Contributors can exploit a shortcode attribute to read arbitrary files or execute code via path traversal in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Feb 2023
- **Updated:** 21 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-695g-cv7c-9p7x

## What is CVE-2023-0080?

CVE-2023-0080 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown Customer Reviews for WooCommerce, published on 13 Feb 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.16.0 does not validate one of its shortcode attribute, which could allow users with a contributor role and above to include arbitrary files via a traversal attack. This could also allow them to read non PHP files and retrieve their content. RCE could also be achieved if the attacker manage to upload a malicious image containing PHP code, and then include it via the affected attribute, on a default WP install, authors could easily achieve that given that they have the upload_file capability.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0080?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cusrev Customer Reviews for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-0080?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-0080 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-0080 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-0080 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-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)
- [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-2023-0080 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-0080 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown Customer Reviews for WooCommerce, published on 13 Feb 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-0080 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-2023-0080/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0080/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0080
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0080
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-0080

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