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AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Contributor is a low-privilege WordPress role mapping to PR:L, not PR:H; no confidentiality or availability impact from review store manipulation.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
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The EmbedPress WordPress plugin before 4.6.4 does not perform a sufficient authorization check on one of its Google Reviews REST API routes, allowing users with the Contributor role and above to modify a site-wide store, deleting entries an administrator configured and injecting their own, which are rendered publicly across the site.
AnalysisAI
Insufficient authorization on the EmbedPress WordPress plugin's Google Reviews REST API endpoint allows any authenticated Contributor-role user to overwrite the site-wide reviews store in versions 4.6.0 through 4.6.3. An attacker with a Contributor account can delete administrator-configured review entries and inject fabricated ones that render publicly across the entire WordPress site, enabling reputation manipulation or social engineering. …
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| Exploitation | The attacker must hold an active WordPress account with at least the Contributor role on the target site. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The provided CVSS vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, score 2.7) contains a metric inconsistency: PR:H denotes high-privilege (administrator-level) access, yet the description explicitly states that Contributor-role users - a low-privilege WordPress role - can exploit this. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in. |
| Remediation | Update EmbedPress to version 4.6.4 or later via the WordPress admin plugin dashboard (Plugins > Installed Plugins > Update) or through the WordPress.org plugin repository; the patch introduces proper capability checks on the affected Google Reviews REST API endpoint per the WPScan advisory (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/12984501-5d93-4941-9e12-6bb8049bd23d/). … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
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EUVD-2026-71870
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