CVE-2025-5720 (GCVE-0-2025-5720)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-31 04:26 – Updated: 2025-07-31 18:13
VLAI?
Title
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.80.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via `author` Parameter
Summary
The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘author’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.80.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ivole Customer Reviews for WooCommerce Affected: * , ≤ 5.80.2 (semver)
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Credits
D.Sim
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