WordPress Rating-Widget: Star Review System 2.8.9 Information Disclosure

`Details  
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Software: Rating-Widget: Star Review System  
Version: 2.8.9  
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rating-widget/  
Advisory report: https://advisories.dxw.com/advisories/rating-widget-debug-mode/  
CVE: Awaiting assignment  
CVSS: 5 (Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)  
  
Description  
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Rating-Widget: Star Review System allows anybody to turn on debug mode and view errors and warnings  
  
Vulnerability  
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The plugin allows anybody to turn on debug mode and view errors and warnings. Errors and warnings should be turned off on production sites as they reveal information useful to attackers such as paths, and may give hints as to how themes and plugins are written.  
  
Proof of concept  
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Add 1/0; to functions.php in the theme  
Enable this plugin  
Visit http://localhost/?rwdbg=true  
(You may need to view source, depending on the theme)  
You will see a PHP warning, including the path to your functions.php file  
  
  
Mitigations  
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Upgrade to version 2.9.0 or later.  
  
Disclosure policy  
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/  
  
Please contact us on [email protected] to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, [email protected]) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf.  
  
This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days.  
  
Timeline  
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2017-10-30: Discovered  
2017-11-02: Reported to vendor via email  
2017-11-03: Vendor reports it will be fixed in the next release  
2017-12-12: Vendor reports issue fixed  
  
  
  
Discovered by dxw:  
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Tom Adams  
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.  
  
  
  
  
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