CVE-2022-36422 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Rating increase/decrease via race condition in Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan WP-PostRatings plugin <= 1.89 at WordPress.

Published: 2022-09-09

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan

WP-PostRatings (WordPress plugin)

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`<= 1.89`	affected	≤ 1.89

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wp-postratings_project:wp-postratings:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Update to 1.90 or higher version.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-39134	Rating increase/decrease via race condition in Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan WP-PostRatings plugin <= 1.89 at WordPress.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00159.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wp-postratings/wordpress-wp-postratings-plugin-1-89-rating-increase-decrease-via-race-condition-vulnerability/_s_id=cve
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/#developers

History

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Wp-postratings Project Wp-postratings

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Patchstack

Published: 2022-09-09T14:39:52.886Z

Updated: 2026-04-28T16:07:46.278Z

Reserved: 2022-08-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-36422

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T10:07:34.067Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-09T15:15:10.697

Modified: 2025-02-20T20:15:35.883

Link: CVE-2022-36422

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-362

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