Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.9 — Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload
CVE-2023-6979Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.38.9Update to 5.38.10 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat 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:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-434 Arbitrary File Upload
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce customer-reviews-woocommerce
- Affected≤ 5.38.9
- Patched in5.38.10
Update to 5.38.10 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.38.9. Version 5.38.10 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 5.38.10, 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 Artem Guzhva (hexcat).
The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the ivole_import_upload_csv AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 5.38.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
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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| 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 |
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Same weakness (Arbitrary File Upload)
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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 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
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