CVE-2026-65557

Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 6.8.0 - Authenticated (Shop manager+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2026-07-24 00:00
Ananda Dhakal

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.8.1
Affected Plugin
Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce
Affected Version
<= 6.8.0
CVSS
4.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE
CVE-2026-65557
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At a glance

CVE-2026-65557 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.8.0. It carries a CVSS score of 4.4 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Shop manager level or above. The issue is fixed in version 6.8.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2026, reported by Ananda Dhakal.

Vulnerability Overview

The Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 6.8.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with shop manager-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce <= 6.8.0 takes an account at Shop manager level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce the fix is 6.8.1: builds <= 6.8.0 are affected, anything from 6.8.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.8.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Shop manager access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Abandoned Cart Lite for WooCommerce 6.8.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65557https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4810251f-7d87-4fed-8673-ff3519c7b0afhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65557

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