# CVE-2024-3243: Missing authorization in Customer Reviews for WooCommerce

> Authenticated subscribers can send arbitrary test emails due to missing capability checks in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 16 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8fp3-w5p8-ppf5

## What is CVE-2024-3243?

CVE-2024-3243 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce, published on 16 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized email sending due to a missing capability check on the send_test_email() function in all versions up to, and including, 5.46.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to send arbitrary test emails.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3243?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cusrev Customer Reviews for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-3243?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3243 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-3243 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3243 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ivole 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-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-2024-3243 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-3243 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce, published on 16 Apr 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3243 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ivole 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-2024-3243/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3243/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3243
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3243
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3243

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3243/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.