Reviews Feed <= 2.15.1 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Plugin Installation and Activation
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1974
- Plugin
- Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More (reviews-feed)
- Affected
- all versions before 2.16.0
- Remediation
- Update to 2.16.0 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Medium · Affected versions Medium among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-29
- Attack surface
- Reviews Feed on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Reviews Feed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized plugin installation, activation and deactivation via the sbr_install_plugin, sbr_activate_plugin and sbr_deactivate_plugin AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.1. This is due to the handlers checking only the plugin's own 'manage_reviews_feed_options' capability rather than the core install_plugins, activate_plugins and deactivate_plugins capabilities, and the install handler accepting an arbitrary package URL. This makes it possible for users who can manage the plugin's settings but lack plugin-management rights, such as sub-site administrators on a multisite network or roles the capability was delegated to through the 'sbr_settings_pages_capability' filter, to install and activate arbitrary plugins from a remote URL, leading to remote code execution. Installation also ignored DISALLOW_FILE_MODS.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1974/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/reviews-feed/tags/2.16.0/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/reviews-feed/
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