kk Star Ratings <= 5.4.5 - Race Condition to Multiple User Voting

2023-11-06 00:00

Mohammad Reza Omrani

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.4.6

Affected Pluginkk Star Ratings – Rate Post & Collect User Feedbacks

Affected Version<= 5.4.5

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2023-4642

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Vulnerability Overview

The kk Star Ratings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a race condition in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.5. This is due to insufficient controls and checks on a user voting. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to provides ratings more than a single time.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.4.6, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')) The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4642 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/003694f8-23be-4c94-899d-76b9b8488202

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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