---
title: "CVE-2026-96823: WooCommerce - Broken Access Control"
description: "WooCommerce <= 5.120.0 contains an unauthenticated arbitrary content deletion vulnerability in customer reviews, letting unauthenticated attackers delete review content remotely, exploit requires no authentication."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-96823/
---

# CVE-2026-96823 WooCommerce - Broken Access Control

WooCommerce <= 5.120.0 contains an unauthenticated arbitrary content deletion vulnerability in customer reviews, letting unauthenticated attackers delete review content remotely, exploit requires no authentication.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Not required

EPSS

0.32% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96823)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Data Tampering

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Published

30 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-862](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/862.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version beyond 5.120.0.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96823](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-96823)
- [https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/customer-reviews-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-customer-reviews-for-woocommerce-plugin-5-120-0-arbitrary-content-deletion-vulnerability?\_s\_id=cve](https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/customer-reviews-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-customer-reviews-for-woocommerce-plugin-5-120-0-arbitrary-content-deletion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve)

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## What this record can't tell you

- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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