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CVE-2018-5291

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-5291 describes a Directory Traversal vulnerability in the GD Rating System plugin version 2.3 for WordPress, specifically within the 'panel' parameter on the wp-admin/admin.php page for the gd-rating-system-tools section. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating that an unauthenticated attacker could exploit it over the network with low complexity to achieve high confidentiality impact, such as reading arbitrary files. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gd_rating_system_project:gd_rating_system:2.3:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0370 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / d4wner/Vulnerabilities-Report/blob/master/gd-rating-system.md
ExploitThird Party Advisory
wordpress.org / support/topic/xss-lfi-bugs-at-the-latest-version-of-gd-rating-system
Broken Link
wpvulndb.com / vulnerabilities/8995
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry