Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.15.0 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion
CVE-2023-0080Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.15.0Update to 5.16.0 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.1
- CVSS
- 8.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce customer-reviews-woocommerce
- Affected≤ 5.15.0
- Patched in5.16.0
Update to 5.16.0 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.15.0. Version 5.16.0 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Customer Reviews for WooCommerce.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 5.16.0, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Customer Reviews for WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.
The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 5.15.0 via a shortcode attribute. This allows subscriber-level attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter ≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0 | CVE-2026-121518 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'slides_to_show' Shortcode Attribute ≤5.126.0Update to 5.127.0 | CVE-2026-120553 | |
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name ≤5.122.0Update to 5.123.0 | CVE-2026-97663 | |
| Critical9.1 | Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion via 'items[][media]' Parameter ≤5.120.0Update to 5.121.0 | CVE-2026-89055 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤5.120.0Update to 5.121.0 | CVE-2026-96823 |
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
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- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'slides_to_show' Shortcode Attribute
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- High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name
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- Critical9.1Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Attachment Deletion via 'items[][media]' Parameter
≤5.120.0Update to 5.121.0
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤5.120.0Update to 5.121.0
Same weakness (Path Traversal)
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| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| High8.2 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion via 'form_fields[upload]' Parameter | CVE-2026-124218 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
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