Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls <= 5.5.4 - Unauthenticated HTML Injection

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
CVE CVE-2024-56277
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published January 3, 2025
Last Updated February 14, 2025
Researcher Muhammad Zidan Ali Mansur
Description

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4. This is due to the software not properly sanitizing or escaping data added to polls. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject HTML elements.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug poll-maker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.5.4
Patched Version
  • 5.5.5
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