Light Poll <= 1.0.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Poll Deletion

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2024-6496
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published July 11, 2024
Last Updated July 15, 2024
Researcher Vuln Seeker Cybersecurity Team
Description

The Light Poll plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete polls via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug light-poll (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.0
Patched Version
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