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Reviews Plus < 1.2.14 — Denial of Service

CVE-2021-24894Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.2.14Update to 1.2.15 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:N Integrity
None
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Reviews Plus reviews-plus

  1. Affected< 1.2.14
  2. Patched in1.2.15

Update to 1.2.15 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.2.14. Version 1.2.15 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Reviews Plus.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.15, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Reviews Plus to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Drew Jones.

The Reviews Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in versions before 1.2.14. This is due to an unknown part of the file post/page of the component Rating Submission Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. This makes it possible for authentication attackers, a authentication is necessary for exploitation to cause a Denial of Service in the review section when an authenticated user submit such rating and the reviews are set to be displayed on the post/page.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Reviews Plus

All 2
More vulnerabilities in Reviews Plus
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Notice Dismissal
≤1.3.4Update to 1.3.5
CVE-2024-32822

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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