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medium 6.5

CVE-2021-25121 json

Rating by BestWebSoft < 1.6 - Rating Denial of Service

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-12033

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Rating by BestWebSoft WordPress plugin before 1.6 does not validate the submitted rating, allowing submission of long integer, causing a Denial of Service on the post/page when a user submit such rating

Patch / fix

  • bestwebsoft rating 1.6

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Exploit prediction

1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/efb1ddef-2123-416c-a932-856d41ed836d referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • Unknown Rating by BestWebSoft

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-191 Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
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References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.