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Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin, CVE-2024-9475

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-9475

Published on
Oct 26, 2024
Research Description
The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the order_by parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.
Affected versions
Min -, max 5.4.7.
Status
vulnerable