CVE-2025-5720
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Publication date: 2025-07-31

Last updated on: 2025-07-31

Assigner: Wordfence

Description
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.
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Published
2025-07-31
Last Modified
2025-07-31
Generated
2026-05-07
AI Q&A
2025-07-31
EPSS Evaluated
2026-05-05
NVD
CVE-2025-5720
EUVD
EUVD-2025-23232
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Showing 2 associated CPEs
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woocommerce customer_reviews 5.80.2
wordpress wordpress *
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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?

This vulnerability is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in the Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress. It occurs via the 'author' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses the affected page.


How can this vulnerability impact me? :

The vulnerability can allow attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the context of the affected website, potentially leading to theft of user data, session hijacking, defacement, or other malicious actions that compromise user security and trust.


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