CVE-2018-5293 — The GD Rating System plugin 2

The GD Rating System plugin 2.3 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-admin/admin.php panel parameter for the gd-rating-system-tools page.

01What is this vulnerability?

The GD Rating System plugin 2.3 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-admin/admin.php panel parameter for the gd-rating-system-tools page.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-01-08T07:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T05:33:43.859Z

09References

• wpvulndb.com — https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8995
• github.com — https://github.com/d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/gd-rating-system.md
• wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xss-lfi-bugs-at-the-latest-version-of-gd-rat…