FKIE_CVE-2026-4301

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-12 09:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:56
Severity
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The Rate Star Review Vote - AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to and including 1.6.4. The vwrsr_review() AJAX handler lacks both capability checks and nonce verification. The only access control is an is_user_logged_in() check. When the 'form' parameter is set to 'update', the function takes an arbitrary post ID from the user-supplied 'rating_id' GET parameter, sets it as the post ID in the update array, and passes it directly to wp_update_post(). This overwrites the target post's title, content, author (changed to the attacker's user ID), post_type (changed to the plugin's custom post type, default 'review'), and status. Additionally, update_post_meta() is called on the arbitrary post ID at lines 758-763, modifying its metadata. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the title, content, author, post type, and metadata of arbitrary posts and pages on the site via the 'rating_id' parameter, effectively allowing full post content takeover.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/tags/1.6.4/rate-star-review.php#L730
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/tags/1.6.4/rate-star-review.php#L754
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/tags/1.6.4/rate-star-review.php#L758
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/trunk/rate-star-review.php#L730
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/trunk/rate-star-review.php#L754
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/trunk/rate-star-review.php#L758
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/107cb15f-4b2e-4ed4-8e8a-4f716f4873db?source=cve
Impacted products
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          "product": "Rate Star Review Vote \u2013 AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings",
          "vendor": "videowhisper",
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      "value": "The Rate Star Review Vote - AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Missing Authorization in all versions up to and including 1.6.4. The vwrsr_review() AJAX handler lacks both capability checks and nonce verification. The only access control is an is_user_logged_in() check. When the \u0027form\u0027 parameter is set to \u0027update\u0027, the function takes an arbitrary post ID from the user-supplied \u0027rating_id\u0027 GET parameter, sets it as the post ID in the update array, and passes it directly to wp_update_post(). This overwrites the target post\u0027s title, content, author (changed to the attacker\u0027s user ID), post_type (changed to the plugin\u0027s custom post type, default \u0027review\u0027), and status. Additionally, update_post_meta() is called on the arbitrary post ID at lines 758-763, modifying its metadata. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to modify the title, content, author, post type, and metadata of arbitrary posts and pages on the site via the \u0027rating_id\u0027 parameter, effectively allowing full post content takeover."
    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:56:23.207",
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}


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