kk Star Ratings <= 5.4.10.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution via 'payload' Parameter

5.3
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2026-3424
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 21, 2026
Last Updated August 22, 2026
Researcher Ronnachai Sretawat Na Ayutaya (Simonhaskelly) - Reconix Co., Ltd.

Description

The The kk Star Ratings – Rate Post & Collect User Feedbacks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.10.3. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate the 'payload' value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

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Vulnerability Details for kk Star Ratings – Rate Post & Collect User Feedbacks

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug kk-star-ratings (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.4.10.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.4.10.3
Patched Version
  • 5.4.10.4

Recent vulnerabilities in kk Star Ratings – Rate Post & Collect User Feedbacks

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 kk Star Ratings – Rate Post & Collect User Feedbacks <= 5.4.10 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution CVE-2024-11977 7.3 mikemyers December 20, 2024
2 kk Star Ratings <= 5.4.5 - Race Condition to Multiple User Voting CVE-2023-4642 5.3 Mohammad Reza Omrani November 6, 2023
3 kk Star Ratings <= 5.4.5 - Missing Authorization CVE-2023-46639 5.3 Revan Arifio October 25, 2023
4 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get CVE-2023-33999 6.1 Rafie Muhammad July 18, 2023
5 kk Star Ratings <= 5.4.3 - IP Spoofing to Protection Mechanism Bypass CVE-2023-36528 5.3 Kévin Mosbahi (Mika) July 17, 2023
6 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks CVE-2022-4974 6.3 March 4, 2022

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