Product Labels For Woocommerce \(sale Badges\)WordPress extension · Acowebs
CVE-2024-24886
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Acowebs Product Labels For Woocommerce (Sale Badges) allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Product Labels For Woocommerce (Sale Badges): from n/a through 1.5.3.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceA Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the Acowebs Product Labels For Woocommerce plugin (versions up to 1.5.3). The plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape user-supplied input when creating or displaying product labels and sale badges, allowing an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code that executes in the browsers of other users who view the affected pages.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Product Labels For Woocommerce \(sale Badges\)WordPress extension
<= 1.5.4CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the installed plugin versionLocate the Acowebs Product Labels For Woocommerce plugin in your WordPress plugin directory (wp-content/plugins) or view the plugin version in the WordPress admin plugin list. Compare the version number against the affected range <= 1.5.4.Affected if The installed version is 1.5.4 or lower.
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Determine if sale badges are configuredAccess the plugin settings in the WordPress admin dashboard under WooCommerce > Product Labels or a similar menu path provided by the Acowebs plugin. Check whether any sale badges or product labels have been created.Affected if Sale badges or product labels exist in the plugin settings.
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Inspect badge label content for unsanitized inputOpen each configured sale badge or product label and review the text fields (label text, badge content, custom HTML) for any raw HTML tags, JavaScript event handlers (onclick, onerror, onload), script tags, or other scriptable content that appears unescaped or unencoded.Affected if Any badge or label contains raw script tags, event handlers, or JavaScript code that would execute when viewed.
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Verify badge display on storefront pagesView a product page on the frontend where a sale badge or label is expected to appear. Right-click and inspect the page source or use browser developer tools to examine the rendered HTML around the badge area. Look for unescaped characters in the label content.Affected if The rendered HTML shows unescaped characters (such as <, >, or quotes) within the badge element that could be interpreted as code.
You are affected if the Acowebs Product Labels For Woocommerce plugin version is 1.5.4 or lower AND sale badges with unsanitized scriptable content have been created and are displayed on the site.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade the Acowebs Product Labels For Woocommerce plugin to version 1.5.4 or later. Until patched, restrict administrative access and carefully review any custom badge configurations for suspicious content.
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