Starfish Review Generation & Marketing <= 3.1.19 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update
CVE-2025-39533Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.1.19Update to 3.1.20 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress starfish-reviews
- Affected≤ 3.1.19
- Patched in3.1.20
Update to 3.1.20 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.1.19. Version 3.1.20 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.1.20, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to LVT-tholv2k.
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 'starfish-execute-restore-default-options' AJAX action 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.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 5| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High8.8 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update via srm_restore_options_defaults ≤3.1.19Update to 3.1.20 | CVE-2025-15157 | |
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get ≤1.9.2No patch available | CVE-2023-33999 | |
| Medium6.3 | Missing Authorization Checks all versionsNo patch available | CVE-2022-4974 | |
| High8.8 | Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update <3.1.7Update to 3.1.7 | — |
- High8.8Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update via srm_restore_options_defaults
≤3.1.19Update to 3.1.20
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get
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- Medium6.3Missing Authorization Checks
all versionsNo patch available
- High8.8Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update
<3.1.7Update to 3.1.7
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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