WordPress Like Button Rating Plugin <= 2.6.31 is vulnerable to a high priority Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

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<= 2.6.31Vulnerable version(s)
2.6.32Fixed version

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Risks

This vulnerability is highly dangerous and expected to become exploited.

Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

This could allow a malicious actor to cause a website to execute website requests to an arbitrary domain of the attacker. This could allow a malicious actor to find sensitive information of other services running on the system.

CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.

Solutions

We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.

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Update to version 2.6.32 or later.

Update to version 2.6.32 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can turn on auto-update for vulnerable plugins only.

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