Medium severity · published May 12, 2026
CVE-2026-4301
Rate Star Review Vote <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Modification via 'rating_id' Parameter
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RS
Rate Star Review Vote – AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings · videowhisper
through 1.6.4 · source: vendor
Affected product
RS
Rate Star Review Vote – AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings
videowhisper
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4301
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-4301
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/tags/1.6.4/rate-star-review.php#L730
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/tags/1.6.4/rate-star-review.php#L754
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/tags/1.6.4/rate-star-review.php#L758
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/trunk/rate-star-review.php#L730
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/trunk/rate-star-review.php#L754
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rate-star-review/trunk/rate-star-review.php#L758
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