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CVE-2024-12309: Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP <= 4.2.4 - Unauthenticated Voting On Scheduled Posts
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-639
Description
The Rate My Post – Star Rating Plugin by FeedbackWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.4 via the get_post_status() due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to vote on unpublished scheduled posts.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3206801/rate-my-post/trunk/public/class-rate-my-post-public.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c9aa467f-9ac2-4a84-b0bb-761101733af7?source=cve
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