CVE-2025-62957
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 NikanWP NikanWP WooCommerce Reporting wc-reports-lite allows Stored XSS.This issue affects NikanWP WooCommerce Reporting: from n/a through <= 1.0.0.
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 CSRF vulnerability in the NikanWP WooCommerce Reporting plugin (wc-reports-lite) allows attackers to inject malicious scripts that get stored (Stored XSS). Attackers can trick authenticated administrators into submitting crafted requests that store XSS payloads in the reporting functionality, which then executes when other users view the reports.
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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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Verify NikanWP WooCommerce Reporting plugin is installedCheck your WordPress plugins directory or wp-admin/plugins.php for the 'wc-reports-lite' or 'NikanWP WooCommerce Reporting' pluginAffected if plugin is installed and active
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Determine the installed plugin versionLook at the plugin version number in the plugin header (wp-admin/plugins.php -> click on the plugin name) or read the main plugin file (usually wc-reports-lite.php) for the 'Version' commentAffected if version is unpatched compared to vendor release notes (no fix version specified in CVE)
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Confirm WooCommerce is activeVerify WooCommerce plugin is enabled in wp-admin/plugins.php - the vulnerable plugin requires WooCommerce to functionAffected if WooCommerce is active and the reporting plugin is in use
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Inspect reporting data for malicious scriptsAccess the plugin's reporting interface (usually under WooCommerce -> Reports or a custom NikanWP reports menu) and view page source or inspect stored report data for unsanitized script tagsAffected if unencoded script tags, img onerror attributes, or other XSS vectors appear in report outputs
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Check browser console for XSS executionNavigate to the reports area while monitoring browser developer tools console for JavaScript errors or executed payloadsAffected if JavaScript executes from data displayed in reports without proper escaping
If the NikanWP WooCommerce Reporting plugin is installed, the reporting feature is accessible, and unsanitized script content appears in reports or executes in the browser, the environment is affected by this Stored XSS vulnerability.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all state-changing operations and properly sanitize/escape all user-supplied data before storage and output in the reporting module.
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- Review / QA4.0 h
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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-2025-62957 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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