WP Google Review Slider <= 18.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'place' Parameter
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Wp Google Places Review Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'place' parameter in versions up to, and including, 18.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in admin/partials/googlecrawl_dfs.php, where the $_GET['place'] value is URL-decoded, stripslashes()'d, and echoed directly into an HTML value attribute with no esc_attr() call when the supplied place is not already a stored key in the wprev_google_crawls option. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a specially crafted link.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-13015
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qx85-p4v5-5g7x
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/815054e2-c575-439a-9a66-fce251b4da80?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-google-places-review-slider/trunk/admin/partials/googlecrawl_dfs.php#L109
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-google-places-review-slider/trunk/admin/partials/googlecrawl_dfs.php#L22
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-google-places-review-slider/trunk/admin/partials/googlecrawl_dfs.php#L48
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3590253%40wp-google-places-review-slider&new=3590253%40wp-google-places-review-slider&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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Sources
- CVE-2026-13015 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-13015 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qx85-p4v5-5g7x · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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