Stored XSS via unescaped order metadata
Published May 2, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026
XSS in WooAssist Where Did You Hear About Us Checkout Field for WooCommerce 1.3.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute scripts. Order metadata is stored without sufficient input sanitization and later rendered without adequate output escaping, allowing attacker-controlled JavaScript to persist in affected pages. Shop Manager-level permissions or higher are required to inject the payload; opening an affected page executes it in the visiting user's browser context.
Summary
What happened
XSS in WooAssist Where Did You Hear About Us Checkout Field for WooCommerce 1.3.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute scripts. Order metadata is stored without sufficient input sanitization and later rendered without adequate output escaping, allowing attacker-controlled JavaScript to persist in affected pages. Shop Manager-level permissions or higher are required to inject the payload; opening an affected page executes it in the visiting user's browser context.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-2752
- Published
- May 2, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Vendor
- WooAssist
- Product
- Where Did You Hear About Us Checkout Field for WooCommerce
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 2, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.3.1
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