Description

WordPress Plugin ReviewX-Multi-criteria Rating & Reviews for WooCommerce is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to bypass the expected capabilities check and perform otherwise restricted actions; other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin ReviewX-Multi-criteria Rating & Reviews for WooCommerce version 1.6.13 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 1.6.14 or latest

References

https://lana.codes/lanavdb/a889c3ff-5df0-4d7e-951f-0b0406468efa/

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/05/wpdeveloper-addresses-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-reviewx-wordpress-plugin/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/reviewx/trunk/README.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2023-2833 CWE-269 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update Privilege Escalation