CVE-2021-24894

Reviews Plus < 1.2.14 - Denial of Service

mediumUncontrolled Resource Consumption

6.5

CVSS Score

6.5

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

1.2.15

Patched in

820d

Time to patch

Description

The Reviews Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in versions before 1.2.14. This is due to an unknown part of the file post/page of the component Rating Submission Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. This makes it possible for authentication attackers, a authentication is necessary for exploitation to cause a Denial of Service in the review section when an authenticated user submit such rating and the reviews are set to be displayed on the post/page.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<1.2.14

PublishedOctober 25, 2021

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginreviews-plus

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/52fb128f-d846-478e-bf9a-cbc3fe8ce89d?source=api-prod

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