Rating by BestWebSoft <= 1.5 - Rating Denial of Service

2022-05-24 00:00

Drew Jones

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.6

Affected PluginRating by BestWebSoft

Affected Version<= 1.5

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2021-25121

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Vulnerability Overview

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

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.6, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-25121 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3511a3d3-1e6e-41ba-a8b9-67f8f7eef157

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityLow

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