Rate my Post – WP Rating System <= 3.3.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2022-4673
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published December 27, 2022
Last Updated January 3, 2023
Researcher István Márton - Wordfence

Description

The Rate my Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode in versions up to, and including, 3.3.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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Vulnerability Details for Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug rate-my-post (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.3.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.8
Patched Version
  • 3.3.9

Recent vulnerabilities in Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP <= 4.2.4 - Unauthenticated Voting On Scheduled Posts CVE-2024-12309 5.3 HayMiz December 12, 2024
2 Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP <= 3.4.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2024-32823 5.3 Kyle Sanchez April 22, 2024
3 Rate my Post – WP Rating System <= 3.4.2 - IP Address Spoofing CVE-2023-51667 5.3 Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew) December 27, 2023
4 Rate my Post - WP Rating System <= 3.4.1 - Insecure Direct Object Reference CVE-2023-49765 4.3 R3N0 August 11, 2023
5 Rate my Post – WP Rating System <= 3.3.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2022-40671 8.8 Nguy Minh Tuan September 14, 2022
6 Rate my Post – WP Rating System <= 3.3.4 - Race Condition CVE-2022-40310 4.3 Nguy Minh Tuan September 1, 2022

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