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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: rating-bws: CVE-2021-25121: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 24, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

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

Solution

rating-bws-plugin-cve-2021-25121
Title
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