CVE-2023-5140
Bonus for Woo < 5.8.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- WPScan
Description
The Bonus for Woo WordPress plugin before 5.8.3 does not sanitise and escape some parameters before outputting them back in pages, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.
Public exploit
A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit or proof of concept: anyone can try it against an unpatched system.
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ee1824e8-09a6-4763-b65e-03701dc3e171 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 58 days later
· 58 days later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.51% · top 56% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected < 5.8.3
References (1)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ee1824e8-09a6-4763-b65e-03701dc3e171 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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