WordPress GD Star Rating Plugin 'votes' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	48166
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 08 2011 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 08 2011 12:00AM
Credit:	Unknown
Vulnerable:	Milan Petrovic GD Star Rating 0
Not Vulnerable:

WordPress GD Star Rating Plugin 'votes' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The GD Star Rating plugin for WordPress is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

WordPress GD Star Rating Plugin 'votes' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/48166.txt

WordPress GD Star Rating Plugin 'votes' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of any more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

WordPress GD Star Rating Plugin 'votes' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• GD Star Rating Homepage (Milan Petrovic)
  
• WordPress Homepage (WordPress)