GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI vulnerability

What happened

The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'video_id' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.9.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected versions

GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, badges & ranks in WordPress, now with AI: 0 through 7.9.4 (semver) Fixed: See vendor advisory.

Why it matters

Review the vendor advisory and exposure of the affected product to determine operational impact.

Detection & mitigation

• Apply vendor-provided updates or mitigations.
• Review affected product exposure and access logs.