Rating by BestWebSoft <= 1.5 - Rating Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2021-25121
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published May 24, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Drew Jones
Description

The Rating by BestWebSoft WordPress plugin through 1.5 does not validate the submitted rating, allowing submission of long integer, causing a Denial of Service on the post/page when a user submit such rating

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug rating-bws (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5
Patched Version
  • 1.6
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