Plugins · rafflepress · data as of 2026-11-04
Is Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version
- Latest version
- 1.12.27
- Last updated
- 2026-09-29
- Active installs
- 20,000+
- Known issues on record
- 13
- Unpatched in latest
- 0
- Tested up to WP
- 7.1.4 · PHP 5.3.3+
The best WordPress giveaway plugin. Grow your email list, website traffic, and social media followers with viral contests, giveaways, and sweepstakes. — by Syed Balkhi
What to do
- Update to the latest version (1.12.27). Anything older than 1.12.27 has at least one known issue listed below. Dashboard → Updates, or Plugins → “update now”.
- If you cannot update right away, deactivate it until you can.
- Turn on auto-updates for it: Plugins → “Enable auto-updates” on its row.
- If you ran a vulnerable version and something looks off (spam pages, strange admins, redirects), run the free scan.
With WP-CLI: wp plugin get rafflepress --field=version shows what you run; wp plugin update rafflepress updates it.
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Known vulnerabilities
13 on record, newest first. “Affected” is the version range the source gives; “fixed in” is the version the source names, or (marked *) the first wordpress.org release after the last affected version.
medium 5.3 CVE-2026-97317 · published 2026-10-02
Information disclosure in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (older than 1.12.27)
- Affected
- older than 1.12.27
- Fixed in
- 1.12.27
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.27 does not remove the reCAPTCHA secret key from the giveaway settings it embeds in public giveaway pages, allowing unauthenticated visitors to retrieve the secret key of any active giveaway that has reCAPTCHA configured.
medium 6.1 CVE-2026-97318 · published 2026-10-02
Open redirect in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (older than 1.12.27)
- Affected
- older than 1.12.27
- Fixed in
- 1.12.27
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.27 does not properly validate a giveaway's parent page URL before saving it and later redirecting visitors to it, allowing unauthenticated attackers to make the site's own giveaway confirmation and referral links redirect visitors to an arbitrary external site.
medium 4.3 CVE-2025-66064 · published 2025-11-21
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.20 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.20 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.21
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Syed Balkhi Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress rafflepress allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress: from n/a through <= 1.12.20.
high 7.2 CVE-2025-12484 · published 2025-11-19
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.19 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.19 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.21 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Wordfence
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple social media username parameters in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
NVD CVE-2025-12484Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)Plugin source
medium 5.3 CVE-2025-49997 · published 2025-06-20
Missing authorization check in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.18 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.18 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.19
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Missing Authorization vulnerability in Syed Balkhi Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress rafflepress allows Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs.This issue affects Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress: from n/a through <= 1.12.18.
medium 4.8 CVE-2024-10107 · published 2025-05-15
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (older than 1.12.17)
- Affected
- older than 1.12.17
- Fixed in
- 1.12.17
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs an admin-level account; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.17 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).
medium 4.8 CVE-2024-6887 · published 2024-09-12
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (older than 1.12.16)
- Affected
- older than 1.12.16
- Fixed in
- 1.12.16
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs an admin-level account; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.16 does not sanitise and escape some of its Giveaways settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editor and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
medium 6.5 CVE-2024-3963 · published 2024-07-13
Cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (older than 1.12.14)
- Affected
- older than 1.12.14
- Fixed in
- 1.12.14
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by CISA ADP
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.12.14 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as editor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks
medium 6.3 CVE-2024-4745 · published 2024-06-10
Missing authorization check in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.4 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.4 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.5
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber)
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
Missing Authorization vulnerability in RafflePress Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress.This issue affects Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress: from n/a through 1.12.4.
medium 5.3 CVE-2024-32827 · published 2024-05-17
Authentication bypass in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.7 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.7 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.11
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by Patchstack
Details from the advisory
Authentication Bypass by Spoofing vulnerability in RafflePress Giveaways and Contests allows Functionality Bypass.This issue affects Giveaways and Contests: from n/a through 1.12.7.
medium 6.1 CVE-2024-1935 · published 2024-03-13
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.5 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.5 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.7 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- No login needed; someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress – Get More Website Traffic, Email Subscribers, and Social Followers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘parent_url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
NVD CVE-2024-1935Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)Plugin source
medium 5.4 CVE-2023-5049 · published 2023-10-30
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (1.12.0 and older)
- Affected
- 1.12.0 and older
- Fixed in
- 1.12.2 *
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'rafflepress' and 'rafflepress_gutenberg' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 1.12.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on 'giframe' user supplied attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
NVD CVE-2023-5049Wordfence advisoryCode change (fix)Plugin source
medium 5.4 CVE-2023-0176 · published 2023-02-06
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress (older than 1.11.3)
- Affected
- older than 1.11.3
- Fixed in
- 1.11.3
- Access needed (per CVSS)
- Needs a low-level account (e.g. subscriber); someone on the site has to click a link or open a page
- Range from
- CVE record (the advisory publisher) · score by NVD
Details from the advisory
The Giveaways and Contests by RafflePress WordPress plugin before 1.11.3 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Recent activity
- 2026-09-29 — latest release on wordpress.org (1.12.27).
- 2026-10-02 — Information disclosure disclosed (CVE-2026-97317), fixed in 1.12.27.
- 2026-10-02 — Open redirect disclosed (CVE-2026-97318), fixed in 1.12.27.
- 2025-11-21 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) disclosed (CVE-2025-66064), fixed in 1.12.21.
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Browse vulnerabilities
- Published this week
- Unpatched in the latest version
- By type of vulnerability
- Plugins by Syed Balkhi (28 tracked)
Types found in this plugin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) (7) · Missing authorization (2) · Sensitive data exposure (1) · Open redirect (1) · Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) (1) · Authentication bypass (1)
Where this data comes from
- Version, last update, installs: wordpress.org/plugins/rafflepress (Plugins API), fetched 2026-11-04.
- Vulnerabilities: NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), checked 2026-11-04. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- Each record links to its CVE page and to the original advisory (Wordfence, Patchstack or WPScan) where there is one. We only list a CVE here when its references or its advisory name this exact plugin, so a few real issues may be missing; none should be about a different plugin. Spot an error? Email Daniel.
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