CVE-2019-25216

The Rich Review plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the POST body 'update' parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.2 High

Status

Analyzed - security@wordfence.com

Published

2024-10-16

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Rich Review (Starfish)
• Rich Reviews By Starfish (Starfishwp)

References

• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-supported-open-to-malware-uninstall-now/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/81bdc004-9b9c-49e2-b337-35a6d8395c5d
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/09/rich-reviews-plugin-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db701ad3-10fd-4a40-b239-139fbc95ab61?source=cve