CVE-2025-15157 (GCVE-0-2025-15157)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-13 21:23 – Updated: 2026-02-13 21:23
VLAI?
Title
Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress <= 3.1.19 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update via srm_restore_options_defaults
Summary
The Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'srm_restore_options_defaults' function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.19. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.
CWE
Assigner
Impacted products
Credits
Athiwat Tiprasaharn Itthidej Aramsri
Show details on NVD website

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