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CVE-2024-3600: Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• Ays Pro Poll Maker: before 5.1.9 — fixed in 5.1.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ays Pro Poll Maker 5.1.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3071296%40poll-maker&new=3071296%40poll-maker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fec015e1-7f64-4917-a242-90bd1135f680?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3071296%40poll-maker&new=3071296%40poll-maker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fec015e1-7f64-4917-a242-90bd1135f680?source=cve

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