CVE-2024-9462

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Analyzed - security@wordfence.com

Published

2024-10-26

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Anonymous Polls (Ays-pro)
• Image Polls (Ays-pro)
• Poll Maker (Ays-pro)
• Poll Maker Versus Polls (Ays-pro)

References

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