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ReviewX <= 1.6.13 — Arbitrary Usermeta Update to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

CVE-2023-2833Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.6.13Update to 1.6.14 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

ReviewX – Multi-Criteria Reviews for WooCommerce with Google Reviews & Schema reviewx

  1. Affected≤ 1.6.13
  2. Patched in1.6.14

Update to 1.6.14 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.6.13. Version 1.6.14 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ReviewX – Multi-Criteria Reviews for WooCommerce with Google Reviews & Schema.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.6.14, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch ReviewX – Multi-Criteria Reviews for WooCommerce with Google Reviews & Schema to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to István Márton.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in ReviewX – Multi-Criteria Reviews for WooCommerce with Google Reviews & Schema

All 15
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.3.10Update to 2.3.11
CVE-2026-57359
Medium5.3Missing Authorization
≤2.3.6Update to 2.3.7
CVE-2026-40781
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure
≤2.2.12Update to 2.3.0
CVE-2025-10734
High7.3Unauthenticated Limited Remote Code Execution
≤2.2.12Update to 2.3.0
CVE-2025-10679
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure to Data Export
≤2.2.12Update to 2.3.0
CVE-2025-10731

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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