# 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`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/reviews-feed/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 2.16.0
- **Fixed in:** 2.16.0 (Update to 2.16.0 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-29)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/reviews-feed
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-28
- **Published:** 2026-10-29
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1974/

## 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/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1974/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.