Plugins · rate-star-review · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Rate Star Review Vote safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 1.6.9
- Last updated
- 2026-10-10
- Active installs
- 30+
- Known issues on record
- 3
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4 · PHP 7.4+
Boost engagement with AJAX-driven star ratings, reviews, vote buttons for content. Includes a bundled runtime subset of Fomantic UI 2.9. — by videowhisper
What to do
- Update to the latest version (1.6.9). Anything older than 1.6.5 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get rate-star-review --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update rate-star-review updates it.
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Known vulnerabilities
3 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
medium 4.3 CVE-2026-4301 · published 2026-05-12
Missing authorization check in Rate Star Review Vote (1.6.4 and older)
- Affected
- 1.6.4 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.6.5 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
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.
medium 6.4 CVE-2024-13392 · published 2025-01-18
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Rate Star Review Vote (1.6.3 and older)
- Affected
- 1.6.3 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.6.5 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Rate Star Review Vote – AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'videowhisper_reviews' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
medium 6.1 CVE-2023-52213 · published 2024-01-08
Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) in Rate Star Review Vote (1.5.1 and older)
- Affected
- 1.5.1 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.5.2
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in VideoWhisper Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings: from n/a through 1.5.1.
Recent activity
- 2026-10-10 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.6.9).
- 2026-05-12 — Missing authorization check disclosed (CVE-2026-4301), fixed in 1.6.5.
- 2025-01-18 — Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2024-13392), fixed in 1.6.5.
- 2024-01-08 — Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) disclosed (CVE-2023-52213), fixed in 1.5.2.
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- Plugins by videowhisper (8 tracked)
Types found in this plugin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) (2) · Missing authorization (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/rate-star-review (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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