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CVE-2024-8199: Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More <= 1.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Limited Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'update_api_key' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update API Key options.

Affected products

• smub Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More: before 1.2.0 — fixed in 1.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: smub Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More 1.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviews-feed/tags/1.1.2/class/Common/Builder/SBR_Feed_Saver_Manager.php#L699
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3125315/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc3e89e5-2e7e-497e-b340-b787ebdf3711?source=cve

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