Date: 
Saturday, Oct 29th, 2022
Advisory ID: 
BACKDROP-SA-CORE-2022-008
Security risk: 
Moderately Critical
Vulnerability: 
Access bypass
Versions affected: 
Description: 

Rate module provides flexible voting widgets for nodes and comments.

Rate module did not sufficiently check access for nodes and comments.

Solution: 

Upgrade your site to the most recent version of Rate module. Download available on the Rate module 1.x-1.0.1 release page. 

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