YASR – Yet Another Star Rating Plugin for WordPress

60 Quality Score

Active Installs

18/30

With around 10,000 active installs, YASR sits in the lower-mid range of adoption, well behind the million-install alternatives listed.

Update Freshness

9/25

The plugin was updated in April 2025 and is tested against WordPress 6.8.5, which is a positive signal, though the PHP 5.4 minimum requirement is now quite dated.

User Rating

14/15

A 94/100 rating from 323 users is excellent and indicates strong satisfaction among those who have installed it.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads is either a sign of a trouble-free plugin or low community engagement, making it hard to gauge responsiveness.

WP Compatibility

11/15

Compatibility scores 75/15 with confirmed testing on WordPress 6.8.5, though the PHP 5.4 floor may concern users on modern hosting.

Scores higher than 8% of indexed plugins

About

Boost the way people interact with your site with an easy WordPress stars rating system! With schema.org rich snippets YASR will improve your SEO

Active Installs 10k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.7/5

Last Updated 2025-04-10 9:09am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.7+

Tested Up To 6.8.8

Requires PHP 5.4+

Security History

9 known vulnerabilities, all patched

1 Critical 1 High 7 Medium

Most recent: April 30, 2026

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Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter Medium

April 30, 2026 Patched in ["3.4.15"] CVE-2024-13362

Yet Another Stars Rating <= 3.4.3 - Missing Authorization via init Medium

November 27, 2023 Patched in ["3.4.4"] CVE-2023-39305

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

July 18, 2023 Patched in ["3.4.2"] CVE-2023-33999

Yet Another Stars Rating <= 3.3.8 - Missing Authorization to Vote Tampering Medium

July 10, 2023 Patched in ["3.3.9"] CVE-2023-37867

Yet Another Stars Rating <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcodes Medium

March 3, 2023 Patched in ["3.1.3"] CVE-2022-40699

Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks Medium

March 4, 2022 Patched in ["2.0.2"] CVE-2022-4974

Yasr – Yet Another Stars Rating <= 2.9.9 - Cross-Site Scripting via source Medium

February 3, 2022 Patched in ["3.0.0"] CVE-2022-23980

Yet Another Stars Rating <= 1.8.6 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection Critical

January 27, 2019 Patched in ["1.8.7"]

Yasr – Yet Another Stars Rating < 0.9.1 - Authenticated SQL Injection High

July 6, 2015 Patched in ["0.9.1"] CVE-2015-9465

What It Does

YASR adds star rating widgets to your WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types, letting visitors rate content with a simple click. It outputs schema.org rich snippets so ratings can appear in Google search results, potentially boosting click-through rates. The plugin includes both classic and block editor support and allows visitors or logged-in users to submit ratings.

Who It's For

This plugin is a good fit for review-focused sites such as product reviewers, recipe blogs, movie or book reviewers, course platforms, and local business directories that want to display and aggregate star ratings. It also works for publishers who want user-generated feedback on individual articles. Sites that already have heavy SEO plugin setups and only need basic rating functionality will find it lightweight enough to coexist.

Who Should Skip It

If you only need ratings on a handful of pages or want a tightly integrated rating system within a larger SEO or schema suite like Rank Math or Yoast, this standalone plugin adds little value. Sites on heavily modified custom themes or those requiring WooCommerce product-specific deep integration may find better alternatives.

The Bottom Line

YASR delivers solid star rating functionality with schema support and an impressive user satisfaction score of 94/100, earning an overall quality score of 63/100. Its modest install base of 10,000 and lack of public support activity mean you are betting on a smaller, less proven project than the block-based alternatives. For a simple, focused rating solution on a review site, it is worth trying; for larger or more complex needs, evaluate the alternatives first.

Pick Spectra if you want star ratings bundled into a broader block library that covers most of your page-building needs.

Breadcrumb NavXT 88/100

Not a direct competitor, but worth considering if your site needs structured navigation alongside any rating system.

PDF Embedder 86/100

Only relevant if your review workflow involves embedding PDF documents rather than collecting star ratings from visitors.

Flexible Table Block 83/100

Useful companion if your review pages feature comparison tables of rated items, though it does not handle ratings itself.

The Icon Block 83/100

A lightweight visual aid for review layouts, but it provides no rating collection or schema markup functionality.