Reviews Plus < 1.2.14 - Denial of Service

6.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
CVE CVE-2021-24894
CVSS 6.5 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 25, 2021
Last Updated January 30, 2023
Researcher Drew Jones

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Reviews Plus

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug reviews-plus (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.2.15, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.2.14
Patched Version
  • 1.2.15

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