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CVE-2022-1456: Poll Maker < 4.0.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Poll Maker WordPress plugin before 4.0.2 does not sanitise and escape some settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Store Cross-Site Scripting attack even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected products

• Ays Pro Poll Maker: before 4.0.2 — fixed in 4.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ays Pro Poll Maker 4.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1f41fc5c-18d0-493d-9a7d-8b521ab49f85
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/1f41fc5c-18d0-493d-9a7d-8b521ab49f85

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