CVE-2022-1772: Google Places Reviews Project Google Places Reviews

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Google Places Reviews WordPress plugin before 2.0.0 does not properly escape its Google API key setting, which is reflected on the site's administration panel. A malicious administrator could abuse this bug, in a multisite WordPress configuration, to trick super-administrators into viewing the booby-trapped payload and taking over their account.

Affected products

• Google Places Reviews Project Google Places Reviews: before 2.0.0 (fixed in 2.0.0)

Published 2022-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.