Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Enumeration

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-3601
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 18, 2024
Last Updated May 2, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_create_author function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract email addresses by enumerating them one character at a time.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug poll-maker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.1.8
Patched Version
  • 5.1.9
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