Stars Rating <= 3.5.0 - Denial of Service

7.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2021-24893
CVSS 7.5 (High)
Publicly Published December 6, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Drew Jones

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.

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Vulnerability Details for Stars Rating

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug stars-rating (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.5.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.5.1
Patched Version
  • 3.5.1

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