kk Star Ratings <= 5.4.5 - Race Condition to Multiple User Voting

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVE CVE-2023-4642
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published November 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Mohammad Reza Omrani
Description

The kk Star Ratings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a race condition in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.5. This is due to insufficient controls and checks on a user voting. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to provides ratings more than a single time.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug kk-star-ratings (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.4.5
Patched Version
  • 5.4.6
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