CVE-2025-15157
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Privilege Escalation in Starfish WordPress Plugin via Missing Capability Check

Publication date: 2026-02-13

Last updated on: 2026-02-13

Assigner: Wordfence

Description
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 'srm_restore_options_defaults' function 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.

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Published
2026-02-13
Last Modified
2026-02-13
Generated
2026-07-06
AI Q&A
2026-02-14
EPSS Evaluated
2026-07-05
NVD
CVE-2025-15157
EUVD
EUVD-2025-207529

Affected Vendors & Products

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Vendor Product Version / Range
starfish_review starfish_review_generation_and_marketing to 3.1.19 (inc)

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CWE ID Description
CWE-862 The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

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Executive Summary

The Starfish Review Generation & Marketing plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability due to a missing capability check in the 'srm_restore_options_defaults' function in all versions up to and including 3.1.19.

This flaw allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level access or higher to modify arbitrary options on the WordPress site.

Attackers can exploit this to change the default user role for new registrations to administrator and enable user registration, thereby gaining administrative access to the site.

Impact Analysis

This vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation, allowing attackers with low-level access to gain full administrative control over the WordPress site.

With administrative access, attackers can modify site settings, add or remove users, and potentially compromise the entire website.

Such control can result in data breaches, defacement, or other malicious activities impacting the site's integrity and availability.

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