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🛡️ CVE-2023-0479 — print-invoice-\&-delivery-notes-for-wooc

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-79 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
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Description

The Print Invoice & Delivery Notes for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 4.7.2 is vulnerable to reflected XSS by echoing a GET value in an admin note within the WooCommerce orders page. This means that this vulnerability can be exploited for users with the edit_others_shop_orders capability. WooCommerce must be installed and active. This vulnerability is caused by a urldecode() after cleanup with esc_url_raw(), allowing double encoding.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-0479 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2023-0479 is recorded against 1 package.

  • print-invoice-\&-delivery-notes-for-woocommerce (fixed in 4.7.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 January 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

wpscan.com
wpscan.com

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS)) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-01-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
print-invoice-\&-delivery-notes-for-woocommerce — 4.7.2

Exploit Protection

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