CVE-2021-24893

HIGH

Stars Rating < 3.5.1 - Denial of Service via Unvalidated Rating Submission

Title source: llm

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)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05d3af69-20b4-499a-8322-2b53674d6a58

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0155

EPSS Percentile 72.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-20 CWE-400

Status published

Products (1)

stars_rating_project/stars_rating < 3.5.1

Published Jan 03, 2022

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026