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GD Star Rating <= 1.9.22 — Cross-Site Request Forgery

CVE-2014-2838Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.9.22No patch available

What to do until a fix ships
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

GD Star Rating gd-star-rating

  1. Affected≤ 1.9.22
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.9.22. No fixed version has been released.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under GD Star Rating.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch GD Star Rating to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tom Adams.

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the GD Star Rating plugin 1.9.22 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct (1) SQL injection attacks via the s parameter in the gd-star-rating-stats page to wp-admin/admin.php or (2) cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in GD Star Rating

All 4
More vulnerabilities in GD Star Rating
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Blind SQL Injection
≤1.9.22No patch available
CVE-2014-2839
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
<1.9.17Update to 1.9.17
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Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.9.22No patch available
—

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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