CVE-2023-40332 (GCVE-0-2023-40332)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-04 07:18 – Updated: 2026-04-28 16:08
VLAI
Title
WordPress WP-PostRatings plugin <= 1.91 - Rating limit Bypass vulnerability
Summary
Improper Control of Interaction Frequency vulnerability in Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan WP-PostRatings allows Functionality Misuse.This issue affects WP-PostRatings: from n/a through 1.91.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-16 19:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-799 - Improper Control of Interaction Frequency
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan WP-PostRatings Affected: n/a , ≤ 1.91 (custom)
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lesterchan wp-postratings Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.91 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:lesterchan:wp-postratings:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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