Stars Rating <= 3.5.0 - Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE CVE-2021-24893
CVSS High (7.5)
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug stars-rating (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.5.1
Patched Version
  • 3.5.1
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