CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-24893

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-01-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-01-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-400

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.

Affected configurations

• stars rating project stars rating (< 3.5.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References