CVE-2021-24893: Stars Rating Project Stars Rating

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Stars Rating WordPress plugin before 3.5.1 does not validate the submitted rating, allowing submission of long integer, causing a Denial of Service in the comments section, or pending comment dashboard depending if the user sent it as unauthenticated or authenticated.

Affected products

• Stars Rating Project Stars Rating: before 3.5.1 (fixed in 3.5.1)

Published 2022-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.