CVE-2023-0079: 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 embe

medium Affects customer-reviews-for-woocommerce (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

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 embe

Package
customer-reviews-for-woocommerce (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<5.17.0
Fixed in
5.17.0
Severity
medium  CVSS 5.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (44.9th percentile)
Published
2024-01-16
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordcustomer-reviews-for-woocommerce (WordPress plugin) advisories

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