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CVE-2011-4646

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in wp-postratings.php in the WP-PostRatings plugin 1.50, 1.61, and probably other versions before 1.62 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users with the Author role to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id attribute of the ratings shortcode when creating a post. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan WP-PostRatings: 1.50, 1.61

References

• http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/430970/wp-postratings/trunk/wp-postratings.php?old=355076&old_path=wp-postratings%2Ftrunk%2Fwp-postratings.php
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46328
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/changelog/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49986
• http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/430970/wp-postratings/trunk/wp-postratings.php?old=355076&old_path=wp-postratings%2Ftrunk%2Fwp-postratings.php
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46328
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/changelog/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49986

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