---
id: CVE-2026-12241
title: >-
  The Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an
  improperly secure capability check on the 'save_meta_boxes' function in all
  versions up t…
summary: >-
  The Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an
  improperly secure capability check on the 'save_meta_boxes' function in all
  versions up t…
severity: medium
cvss: 5.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
vendor: mihail-barinov
product: Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce
affected:
  - advanced_woo_labels_product_labels_badges_for_woocommerce <= 2.51
published: '2026-10-01'
updated: '2026-10-01'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-01T05:17:08.883'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12241'
references:
  - url: 'https://kramakit.com/guide/free-version-changelog-awl/'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/advanced-woo-labels.php#L219
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/admin/class-awl-admin.php#L121
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/class-awl-label-view.php#L145
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/class-awl-taxonomy.php#L116
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-woo-labels/trunk/includes/class-awl-taxonomy.php#L78
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a08d9118-3615-4f8e-a1cc-ba7e7873b7e5?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-10-01T05:37:57.546Z'
---

## Overview

The Advanced Woo Labels – Product Labels & Badges for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to an improperly secure capability check on the 'save_meta_boxes' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.51. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to create AWS labels that are rendered without proper escaping. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 2.46.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.