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CVE-2024-3601: Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Enumeration

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 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: none known
• Published: 2024-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_create_author function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract email addresses by enumerating them one character at a time.

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/fc0505a1-c7c4-4cf1-97cd-123a4dddcea3?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/fc0505a1-c7c4-4cf1-97cd-123a4dddcea3?source=cve

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