GamiPress – The #1 gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress <= 7.1.5 — Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via gamipress_get_user_earnings
CVE-2024-11036Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.1.5Update to 7.1.6 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.3
- CVSS
- 7.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:LAvailability- Low
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI gamipress
- Affected≤ 7.1.5
- Patched in7.1.6
Update to 7.1.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 7.1.5. Version 7.1.6 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI.
- 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
- Update to version 7.1.6, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Arkadiusz Hydzik.
The The GamiPress – The #1 gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via gamipress_get_user_earnings AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.5. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'video_id' Parameter ≤7.9.4Update to 7.9.5 | CVE-2026-14379 |
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection via 'Gravity Forms Name/List Field' Parameter
≤8.1.1Update to 8.1.2
- Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
≤8.0.7Update to 8.0.8
- Medium5.38.0.5 - Missing Authorization
7.9.5 – 8.0.5Update to 8.0.6
- Medium4.3Missing Authorization
<8.0.6Update to 8.0.6
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≤7.9.4Update to 7.9.5
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. 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.
