CVE-2024-12309

Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP <= 4.2.4 - Unauthenticated Voting On Scheduled Posts

mediumAuthorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

5.3

CVSS Score

5.3

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

4.2.5

Patched in

Time to patch

Description

The Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 via the get_post_status() due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to vote on unpublished scheduled posts.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

None

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=4.2.4

PublishedDecember 12, 2024

Last updatedDecember 13, 2024

Affected pluginrate-my-post

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c9aa467f-9ac2-4a84-b0bb-761101733af7?source=api-prod

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