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Atomicorp WAF Rule 399177

Rule Summary

  • Rule ID: 399177
  • Status: Active
  • Alert message: Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: CVE-2026-6176 Cross-site scripting in comment on /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (detectXSS)
  • Observed CWEs: None documented
  • Revision: 1
  • Rule severity: Critical (2)
  • Phase: 2 (request body)
  • Request surfaces: Request filename
  • Rule action: deny
  • HTTP status: 403
  • Public tags: CVE-2026-6176, XSS
  • Logging: log, auditlog

Description

This rule detects behavior identified by its current alert as “CVE-2026-6176 Cross-site scripting in comment on /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php (detectXSS)” in the request filename. It evaluates during the request body phase and denies matching traffic with HTTP status 403.

CVEs Referenced by This Rule

The current ModSecurity rule metadata explicitly names the following CVEs. These references explain the rule author’s association; they do not claim that the rule is limited to these vulnerabilities or that this is an exhaustive coverage list.

CVE-2026-6176

The Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the aggregated review form submission in versions up to and including 5.106.0. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied review comment text. The plugin accepts review submissions from unauthenticated users through the ‘cr_local_forms_submit’ AJAX action without sanitizing HTML content before storing it via wp_insert_comment(), and later renders this stored content on product pages through comment_text() without proper escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers with a valid review form URL (obtainable through review reminder emails sent to customers who placed orders) to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the affected product page.

This is a selected list of documented research observations, not an exhaustive coverage matrix. Absence of a CVE does not imply absence of protection.

No selected related public CVE research notes are currently published.