WPC Order Notes for WooCommerce - Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)

Summary

Name	WPC Order Notes for WooCommerce 1.5. - Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
Code name	skims-54
Product	WPC Order Notes for WooCommerce
Affected versions	Version 1.5.
State	Private
Release date	2025-01-03

Vulnerability

Kind	Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
Rule	Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
Remote	No
CVSSv4 Vector	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:U
Exploit available	No
CVE ID(s)	cve-2020-2020

Description

WPC Order Notes for WooCommerce 1.5. was found to be vulnerable. The web application dynamically generates web content without validating the source of the potentially untrusted data in myapp/wpc-order-notes.php.

Vulnerability

Skims by Fluid Attacks discovered a Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in WPC Order Notes for WooCommerce 1.5.. The following is the output of the tool:

Skims output

 410 | wp_die();
 411 | }
 412 |
 413 | function ajax_update_order_note() {
 414 | $comment = [
 415 | 'comment_ID' => sanitize_text_field( $_POST['note_id'] ),
 416 | 'comment_content' => sanitize_text_field( $_POST['note_content'] )
 417 | ];
 418 | wp_update_comment( $comment );
 419 |
> 420 |    echo $_POST['note_content'];
  421 |    wp_die();
  422 |   }
  423 |
  424 |   function ajax_add_order_note() {
  425 |    $ids              = explode( '.', $_POST['ids'] );
  426 |    $note_type        = wc_clean( wp_unslash( $_POST['note_type'] ) );
  427 |    $is_customer_note = ( 'customer' === $note_type ) ? 1 : 0;
  428 |
  429 |    foreach ( $ids as $id ) {
  430 |     $order = wc_get_order( $id );
      ^ Col 0

Our security policy

We have reserved the ID cve-2020-2020 to refer to this issue from now on.

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System Information

• Version: WPC Order Notes for WooCommerce

1.5.

Mitigation

There is currently no patch available for this vulnerability.

Credits

The vulnerability was discovered by Andres Roldan from Fluid Attacks' Offensive Team using Skims

Timeline