WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-8995 Deferred

Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls: Sensitive information exposure

Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls is affected by sensitive information exposure. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. Successful exploitation can disclose data that should not be available to the caller. The published affected range is <= 6.3.7.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
Plugin slug
poll-maker
Affected
<= 6.3.7
Safe version
> 6.3.7
Published
May 29, 2026
Weakness
CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

This CVE was published May 29, 2026 and is one of 23 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls to a release after 6.3.7, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

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.

Source record

Technical description

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to and including 6.3.7. This is due to insufficient access controls on the 'ays_poll_get_user_information' AJAX action, which serializes and returns the complete WP_User object — including the user_pass (bcrypt password hash), user_email, user_login, user_registered, roles, and all capabilities — without any nonce verification or capability check beyond is_user_logged_in(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve sensitive account data including their own password hash, which WordPress does not expose through any of its standard interfaces and which can be leveraged for offline password-cracking attacks.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources