GD Rating System < 2.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2017-18591
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published February 23, 2017
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Haojun Hou in ADLab of Venustech
Description

The gd-rating-system plugin before 2.1 for WordPress has XSS in log.php via the status parameter. 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 link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug gd-rating-system (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.1
Patched Version
  • 2.1
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