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Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin, CVE-2024-9462

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-9462

Published on
Oct 26, 2024
Research 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 versions
Min -, max 5.4.7.
Status
vulnerable