# CVE-2024-8199: Missing authorization in Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More

> Authenticated subscribers can modify API key settings due to missing capability checks in the Reviews Feed WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-whcw-39v8-h8p9

## What is CVE-2024-8199?

CVE-2024-8199 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in smub Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More, published on 27 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'update_api_key' function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update API Key options.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8199?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Smashballoon Reviews Feed.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8199?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8199 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in smub Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More

- [CVE-2024-8200](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8200/): Cross-site request forgery in Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8199 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8199 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in smub Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More, published on 27 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: smub Reviews Feed – Add Testimonials and Customer Reviews From Google Reviews, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and More. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8199/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8199/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8199
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8199
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8199

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8199/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.