PT-2026-8033 · WordPress · Starfish Review Generation & Marketing For Wordpress

Athiwat Tiprasaharn + 1 · Published 2026-02-13 · Updated 2026-02-13 · CVE-2025-15157

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress plugin versions through 3.1.19

Description The Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress plugin is susceptible to unauthorized data modification, potentially leading to privilege escalation. A missing capability check within the srm restore options defaults() function allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to modify arbitrary options on a WordPress site. This can be exploited to elevate privileges, such as changing the default user role for registration to administrator, enabling unauthorized administrative access.

Recommendations Update the Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress plugin to a version beyond 3.1.19.

Fix

LPE

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-15157

Affected Products

Starfish Review Generation & Marketing For Wordpress

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15157 · Security Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/44662 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/064e7ea2-949e-4f5b-adba-0890f8c6ad25?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2022428986698297418 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/TheHackerWire/status/2022434835185430750 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/152007 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/starfish-reviews/tags/3.1.18/init/actions/ajax/starfish-ajax-callbacks.action.php#L46 · Note