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CVE-2023-4642
kk Star Ratings < 5.4.6 - Rating Tampering via Race Condition
Medium5.9EPSS 0.41%
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- Updated
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- WPScan
Description
The kk Star Ratings WordPress plugin before 5.4.6 does not implement atomic operations, allowing one user vote multiple times on a poll due to a Race Condition.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
- CWE-362 Race Condition (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)
- CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected < 5.4.6
References (1)
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6f481d34-6feb-4af2-914c-1f3288f69207 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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