TI-2024-03355 Aliases CVE-2024-3600 GHSA-w4r6-cjx2-64gc

Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

LOW 32CWE-862Published 2024-04-19 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Security bypass, Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: Low · Low · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862 and CWE-79.

Summary

The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_maker_quick_start AJAX action in addition to insufficient escaping and sanitization in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create quizzes and inject malicious web scripts into them that execute when a user visits the page.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00381 32nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Ays Pro	Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls	up to 5.1.8	—	No fix listed	CNA

Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls VendorAys Pro Affected up to 5.1.8 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:poll_maker:::::free:wordpress::	before 5.1.9	Vulnerable	Ays Pro

cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:poll_maker:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:* Versions before 5.1.9 Vulnerable ·Ays Pro

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-3600
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w4r6-cjx2-64gc

References

Advisory 1

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fec015e1-7f64-4917-a242-90bd1135f680?source=cve

Other 1

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3071296%40poll-maker&new=3071296%40poll-maker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

TI-2024-12643 Poll Maker < 5.5.4 - Admin+ Stored XSS CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.8
TI-2025-18294 WordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.5.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-19842 WordPress Poll Maker <= 5.6.5 - SQL Injection vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-30042 WordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.7.7 - Race Condition Vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
TI-2023-16880 WordPress Poll Maker Plugin <= 4.6.2 is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2021-06933 Poll Maker < 3.4.2 - Unauthenticated Time Based SQL Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

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Sources

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