WP Google Review Slider

82 Quality Score

Active Installs

20/30

30,000 active installs puts it in the middle of the pack: well-known but not a category leader, with alternatives like Rich Showcase and Reviews Feed each sitting around 100,000 installs.

Update Freshness

25/25

Last updated July 2026 and tested against WordPress 7.0.1, so it is clearly being actively maintained against the latest core releases.

User Rating

15/15

A 96 out of 100 from 366 reviewers is exceptionally high and suggests very few users run into problems worth reporting.

Support Health

8/15

Only 5 support threads exist in total, and all 5 are resolved, but the tiny volume means there is not much real-world signal about how the developer handles tougher issues.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatible back to WordPress 3.0.1 and tested with the current 7.0.1 release, giving it one of the broadest compatibility ranges in the category.

Scores higher than 88% of indexed plugins

About

Display Google reviews on your site with a slider or grid. Reviews are saved locally on your server for fast loading. No address? No problem — works w …

Active Installs 30k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.9/5

Last Updated 2026-08-11 7:44pm GMT

Requires WordPress 3.0.1+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Security History

12 known vulnerabilities, all patched

3 High 9 Medium

Most recent: July 27, 2026

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Google Review Slider <= 18.4 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection Medium

July 27, 2026 Patched in ["18.5"] CVE-2026-66427

Google Review Slider <= 18.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Medium

July 27, 2026 Patched in ["18.5"] CVE-2026-66428

WP Google Review Slider <= 18.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'place' Parameter Medium

June 30, 2026 Patched in ["18.2"] CVE-2026-13015

WP Google Review Slider <= 6.1 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection High

June 4, 2026 Patched in [] CVE-2019-25745

WP Google Review Slider <= 18.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting High

June 1, 2026 Patched in ["18.1"] CVE-2026-39451

Google Review Slider <= 17.4 - Missing Authorization Medium

November 14, 2025 Patched in ["17.6"] CVE-2025-66063

WP Google Review Slider <= 16.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to SQL Injection Medium

March 27, 2025 Patched in ["16.1"] CVE-2025-30783

WP Google Review Slider <= 15.5 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

March 3, 2025 Patched in ["15.6"] CVE-2024-11109

WP Google Review Slider <= 13.5 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

April 5, 2024 Patched in ["13.6"] CVE-2024-2310

Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get Medium

July 18, 2023 Patched in ["12.6"] CVE-2023-33999

WP Google Review Slider <= 11.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection High

January 23, 2023 Patched in ["11.8"] CVE-2023-0259

WP Google Review Slider <= 11.5 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Medium

December 2, 2022 Patched in ["11.6"] CVE-2022-4242

What It Does

WP Google Review Slider pulls your Google Business Profile reviews and displays them on your site as a slider, grid, or other widget layouts. Reviews are cached locally on your own server so subsequent loads do not depend on a live Google API call, which keeps page rendering fast. It works even for businesses without a public street address listed on Google.

Who It's For

Local businesses, restaurants, clinics, and service providers who already have a Google Business Profile and want to display that social proof on their WordPress site without writing code. It is a good fit for site owners who care about fast load times and prefer a simple, single-purpose tool rather than a broader reviews or social proof suite.

Who Should Skip It

If you want to collect first-party testimonials directly on your site, run a multi-platform feed (Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook, etc.), or need schema-rich review snippets for SEO, this plugin is too narrow. Larger sites that already use a full marketing or FOMO toolkit like NotificationX will find this redundant.

The Bottom Line

WP Google Review Slider is a focused, well-maintained, and highly rated plugin that does one thing well: showing Google reviews fast via local caching. It loses points only on raw popularity and the very thin support thread history, so buyers who want a broader reviews ecosystem or stronger SEO schema tooling should look at the alternatives above.

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