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CVE-2026-8910: WP Emoticon Rating <= 1.0.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'emo_settings' Parameter

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-09 · updated 2026-07-23
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WP Emoticon Rating plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update settings and inject malicious web scripts via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

• rahulbhangale WP Emoticon Rating: through 1.0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-emoticon-rating/trunk/admin/wp-emo-admin.php#L101
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-emoticon-rating/trunk/admin/wp-emo-admin.php#L107
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-emoticon-rating/trunk/admin/wp-emo-admin.php#L130
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-emoticon-rating/trunk/admin/wp-emo-admin.php#L136
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-emoticon-rating/trunk/admin/wp-emo-admin.php#L18
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-emoticon-rating/trunk/admin/wp-emo-admin.php#L76
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b2a0b560-3f5a-4d09-9cc1-e22b2a19dfe6?source=cve

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