CVE-2018-10966: Gamerpolls

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in GamerPolls 0.4.6, related to config/environments/all.js and config/initializers/02_passport.js. An attacker can edit the Passport.js contents of the session cookie to contain the ID number of the account they wish to take over, and re-sign it using the hard coded secret.

Affected products

Published 2018-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.