CVE-2025-5530
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
11/07/2025
Last modified:
11/07/2025
Description
The WPC Smart Compare for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'shortcode_btn' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-smart-compare/tags/6.4.5/wpc-smart-compare.php#L187
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woo-smart-compare/tags/6.4.5/wpc-smart-compare.php#L2616
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3318565%40woo-smart-compare&new=3318565%40woo-smart-compare
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3bd09891-8117-43b1-8744-8f3773971540?source=cve