Rate Star Review Vote WordPress Plugin Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the Rate Star Review Vote – AJAX Reviews, Votes, Star Ratings plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions through 1.6.3. The issue arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the 'videowhisper_reviews' shortcode. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, which are executed when users access the affected page.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for stored cross-site scripting, where injected scripts are executed in the context of the user viewing the page.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the plugin to version 1.6.4 or a newer patched version.