Starfish Review Generation & Marketing <= 3.1.14 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-39533
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published April 16, 2025
Last Updated April 22, 2025
Researcher LVT-tholv2k
Description

The Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'starfish-execute-restore-default-options' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.14. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug starfish-reviews (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.14
Patched Version
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