High severity7.2NVD Advisory· Published Oct 16, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-25216

Description

The Rich Review plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the POST body 'update' parameter in versions up to, and including, 1.7.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Affected products

WordPress/Rich Reviewllm-fuzzy2 versions
<=1.7.4+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=1.7.4
- (no CPE)
Starfish/Rich Reviews By Starfishv5
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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/81bdc004-9b9c-49e2-b337-35a6d8395c5dnvdThird Party Advisory
www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/09/rich-reviews-plugin-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/nvdPress/Media CoverageThird Party Advisory
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/db701ad3-10fd-4a40-b239-139fbc95ab61nvdThird Party Advisory
wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-supported-open-to-malware-uninstall-now/nvdIssue Tracking

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