Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls: SQL injection
Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls is affected by SQL injection. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
- Plugin slug
poll-maker- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 26, 2024
This CVE was published Oct 26, 2024 and is one of 23 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H