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CVE-2018-5289

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The GD Rating System plugin 2.3 for WordPress has Directory Traversal in the wp-admin/admin.php panel parameter for the gd-rating-system-information page.

Affected products

• Gd Rating System Project Gd Rating System: 2.3

References

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

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