CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-2833
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
The ReviewX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient restriction on the 'rx_set_screen_options' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wp_screen_options[option]' and 'wp_screen_options[value]' parameters during a screen option update.
Affected configurations
• wpdeveloper reviewx (<= 1.6.13)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://lana.codes/lanavdb/a889c3ff-5df0-4d7e-951f-0b0406468efa/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviewx/tags/1.6.13/includes/rx-functions.php#L972 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2916148%40reviewx&old=2912114%40reviewx&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file472 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/05/wpdeveloper-addresses-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-reviewx-wordpress-plugin/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70e1d701-2cff-4793-9e4c-5b16a4038e8d?source=cve Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lana.codes/lanavdb/a889c3ff-5df0-4d7e-951f-0b0406468efa/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/reviewx/tags/1.6.13/includes/rx-functions.php#L972 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2916148%40reviewx&old=2912114%40reviewx&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file472 Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/05/wpdeveloper-addresses-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-reviewx-wordpress-plugin/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70e1d701-2cff-4793-9e4c-5b16a4038e8d?source=cve Exploit, Third Party Advisory