Featured Comments

Featured Comments has 2 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2014; all 2 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 8.8, and the most serious one scores 8.8 out of 10. Severity breakdown: 0 critical and 2 high. 2014 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 2 of the records (100%).

Every one of the 2 issues recorded for Featured Comments has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

All of these findings were reported by Mallory Adams. Featured Comments is installed on roughly 30 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 4.7.35.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSHigh

8.8/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 8.8CVE-2014-10382

Featured Comments < 1.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

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Vulnerability Records

2 records


2014-10-21 00:00	Featured Comments < 1.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Featured Comments < 1.2.5	`CVE-2014-10382`	8.8 High	Anonymous	Yes
2014-06-10 00:00	Featured Comments < 1.2.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Featured Comments < 1.2.5	`CVE-2014-4163`	8.8 High	Mallory Adams	Yes

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Plugin Profile

Latestv1.2.6

Featured Comments

Author

Syed Balkhi

5.0(2)

100/100

Last Updated

2016-10-10 (10y ago)

Active Installs

30+

Downloads

9,204

Requires WP

3.5+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 4.7.35

Created

2010-01-12 (17y ago)

Lets the admin add “featured” or “buried” css class to selected comments. Handy to highlight comments that add value to your post. This plugin makes use of the meta_query option added in WordPress 3.5 to the WP_Comment_Query class, so it is no longer compatible with earlier versions of WordPress. Please report bugs and suggestions on Github.

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