Description
WordPress Plugin GD Star Rating is prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site request forgery and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Exploiting these issues may allow an attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application or to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress Plugin GD Star Rating version 1.9.22 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.
Remediation
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised and CSRF protection is implemented with Nonce-like mechanism or disable the plugin until a fix is available
References
https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-blind-sql-injection-in-gd-star-rating-1-9-22/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/399
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/125932/GD-Star-Rating-1.9.22-XSS-CSRF-SQL-Injection.html
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