Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.10 - Improper Authorization via submit_review
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'submit_review' function in all versions up to, and including, 5.38.12. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to submit reviews with arbitrary email addresses regardless of whether reviews are globally enabled.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-1044
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-phw2-9x34-48cx
References
More ivole Customer Reviews For Woocommerce vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-00076 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.16.0 - Contributor+ LFI CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-00075 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce < 5.17.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2023-06380 Customer Reviews for WooCommerce <= 5.38.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-19061 WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 - Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2022-17838 WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 - Authenticated Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-18093 WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.3.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2024-1044 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-1044 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-phw2-9x34-48cx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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