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ReviewX – Multi-criteria Rating & Reviews for WooCommerce, CVE-2023-2833

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2023-2833

Published on
Jun 06, 2023
Research Description
The ReviewX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rx_set_screen_options' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_screen_options[option]' and 'wp_screen_options[value]' parameters during a screen option update.
Affected versions
max 1.2.9.
Status
vulnerable