CVE-2024-3600

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

highMissing Authorization

7.2

CVSS Score

7.2

CVSS Score

high

Severity

5.1.9

Patched in

Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=5.1.8

PublishedApril 18, 2024

Last updatedApril 19, 2024

Affected pluginpoll-maker

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fec015e1-7f64-4917-a242-90bd1135f680?source=api-prod

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