Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system: SQL injection
Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system is affected by SQL injection. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can alter database queries and expose or modify WordPress data.
- Component
- Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jul 12, 2021
This CVE was published Jul 12, 2021 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system 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, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system WordPress plugin before 1.5.3 did not sanitise, escape or validate the date_answers[] POST parameter before using it in a SQL statement when sending a Poll result, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL Injection attacks
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H