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

5.3
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVE CVE-2023-4642
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Mohammad Reza Omrani

Description

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.

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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 5.4.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.4.5
Patched Version
  • 5.4.6

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