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Stored XSS in a WordPress plugin typically needs a low-privileged authenticated role to persist the payload (PR:L) and a victim to view it (UI:R); scope changes to the browser (S:C) with limited C/I and no real availability impact.
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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Flintop Free Gifts for WooCommerce free-gifts-for-woocommerce allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Free Gifts for WooCommerce: from n/a through <= 13.1.0.
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AnalysisAI
Stored cross-site scripting in the Flintop "Free Gifts for WooCommerce" WordPress plugin (all versions through 13.1.0) lets an attacker inject persistent JavaScript that executes in the browser of anyone viewing the affected page. Reported by Patchstack and tracked as CWE-79, it carries a CVSS 7.1 score driven by a changed scope (S:C), and has no public exploit identified at time of analysis. No CISA KEV listing or POC has been reported, so this is a disclosed-but-not-yet-weaponized web plugin flaw.
Technical ContextAI
The affected component is a WordPress e-commerce plugin that extends WooCommerce to offer free-gift promotions, identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:flintop:free_gifts_for_woocommerce. The root cause is CWE-79, Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation: user- or operator-supplied input is written into generated HTML without adequate output encoding or sanitization, so injected markup is stored server-side and later rendered as active script. Because it is a stored (persistent) XSS, the payload lives in the site's database - likely in a plugin setting, gift configuration, or a field submitted through WooCommerce workflows - and re-executes every time the tainted page is loaded, unlike reflected XSS that requires a crafted per-request link.
RemediationAI
No fixed version is stated in the available data - the affected range runs "through <= 13.1.0" with no confirmed patched release, so treat this as No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis and monitor the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/free-gifts-for-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-free-gifts-for-woocommerce-plugin-13-1-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) and the plugin's WordPress.org page for a release above 13.1.0, applying it as soon as it ships. As compensating controls until then: deploy a WordPress-aware WAF or virtual patch (Patchstack itself offers this) to filter XSS payloads targeting the plugin's endpoints; restrict which user roles can submit or edit the gift-related fields that feed the vulnerable output; and if the free-gift feature is non-essential, deactivate and remove the plugin to eliminate exposure entirely - with the trade-off that any active gift promotions will stop working. Adding a strict Content-Security-Policy that disallows inline script can reduce payload impact but may break other plugins/themes that rely on inline scripts.
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