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CVE-2024-9462: Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls <= 5.4.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Poll Settings

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via poll settings in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• Ays Pro Poll Maker: before 5.4.7 — fixed in 5.4.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ays Pro Poll Maker 5.4.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poll-maker/tags/5.4.6/includes/lists/class-poll-maker-polls-list-table.php#L244
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poll-maker/tags/5.4.6/includes/lists/class-poll-maker-polls-list-table.php#L255
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poll-maker/tags/5.4.6/includes/lists/class-poll-maker-polls-list-table.php#L362
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e6434fb-390d-439d-bf3e-9afe8644fd58?source=cve

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