The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.16.0 does not validate one of its shortcode attribute, which could allow users with a contributor role and above to include arbitrary files via a traversal attack. This could also allow them to read non PHP files and retrieve their content. RCE could also be achieved if the attacker manage to upload a malicious image containing PHP code, and then include it via the affected attribute, on a default WP install, authors could easily achieve that given that they have the upload_file capability.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-0080 is rated High Exploit Risk (71.6/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.12%).Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB).Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2023-0080
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-0080
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).