CVE-2018-5287
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-about page.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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-about page.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.70% probability · 90th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- gd rating system project/gd rating system
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/gd-rating-system.mdExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xss-lfi-bugs-at-the-latest-version-of-gd-rating-system/Broken Link
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8995Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/gd-rating-system.mdExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xss-lfi-bugs-at-the-latest-version-of-gd-rating-system/Broken Link
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8995Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.