CVE-2021-24893

Stars Rating <= 3.5.0 - Denial of Service

highUncontrolled Resource Consumption

7.5

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Score

high

Severity

3.5.1

Patched in

778d

Time to patch

Description

The Stars Rating WordPress plugin before 3.5.1 does not validate the submitted rating, allowing submission of long integer, causing a Denial of Service in the comments section, or pending comment dashboard depending if the user sent it as unauthenticated or authenticated.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<3.5.1

PublishedDecember 6, 2021

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginstars-rating

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/47a00c6f-958f-41c7-a213-c858d8fac2ed?source=api-prod

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