vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: stars-rating: CVE-2021-24893: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Dec 6, 2021 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 29, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 6, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026
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.
Solution
stars-rating-plugin-cve-2021-24893
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24893
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/47a00c6f-958f-41c7-a213-c858d8fac2ed?source=api-prod
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11805
- CVE-2021-24893
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24893
- CWE-400
- CWE-20
- EUVD-EUVD-2021-11805
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