CVE-2025-53271
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 · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Anton Bond Additional Order Filters for WooCommerce additional-order-filters-for-woocommerce allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Additional Order Filters for WooCommerce: from n/a through <= 1.22.
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 · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Additional Order Filters for WooCommerce plugin allows attackers to trick authenticated administrators into submitting malicious requests that inject and persist XSS payloads into the plugin's order filtering settings or data. When other users access the affected pages, the stored malicious script executes in their browsers.
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CVSS 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
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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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Confirm plugin installationCheck if the Additional Order Filters for WooCommerce plugin is installed in the WordPress environment. In WP Admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and look for 'Additional Order Filters for WooCommerce', or inspect the wp-content/plugins directory for a folder matching that name.Affected if Plugin is installed and active in WordPress
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Identify installed versionView the plugin version from the Plugins page in WordPress admin (click on the plugin name/details), or open the main plugin PHP file and check the 'Version' header in the plugin comment block.Affected if Version is older than the patched version (once released) or cannot be determined
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Verify plugin settings accessibilityNavigate to WooCommerce > Orders and look for the Additional Order Filters section, or access any plugin-specific settings page under WooCommerce > Settings > Additional Order Filters if it exists.Affected if Plugin settings page is accessible to administrator accounts
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Inspect order filter configurations for XSS payloadsReview any saved order filter settings, custom filter names, or filter parameters stored by the plugin. Check the database table wp_options for option_name values containing 'aof' or 'additional_order_filters' and examine their stored values.Affected if Filter settings contain unexpected HTML script tags, javascript: URIs, or event handler attributes like onload, onerror, or onclick
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Check for recent unauthorized admin actionsReview WordPress activity logs, server access logs, or security plugins for POST requests to the plugin's settings endpoints originating from admin sessions that may have been induced via CSRF.Affected if Suspicious POST requests to plugin settings found in logs with parameters containing XSS vectors
User is affected if the Additional Order Filters for WooCommerce plugin is installed and the plugin settings or saved order filters contain injected malicious scripts that could execute when other users view order pages.
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 dataUpdate the plugin to the latest version once available. Until then, disable the plugin or implement server-side CSRF token validation at the WAF/proxy level to block malicious requests.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-53271 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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