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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-5720
CVE-2025-5720:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the 'author' parameter in versions up to and including 5.80.2. This vulnerability was discovered on July 30, 2025, and was publicly disclosed on July 31, 2025. The vulnerability was identified by security researcher zer0gh0st (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium). The issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'author' parameter, which allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page (Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to store malicious JavaScript code that executes in users' browsers when they view affected pages. This could potentially lead to theft of sensitive information, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks against users who view the compromised content (NVD).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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