Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

7.2
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-3600
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published April 18, 2024
Last Updated April 19, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_maker_quick_start AJAX action in addition to insufficient escaping and sanitization in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create quizzes and inject malicious web scripts into them that execute when a user visits the page.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug poll-maker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.1.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.8
Patched Version
  • 5.1.9

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