Voting Contest <= 5.8 - Missing Authorization

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2025-60086
CVSS	Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published	August 21, 2025
Last Updated	December 19, 2025
Researcher	theviper17y

Description

The Voting Contest plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 5.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	wp-voting-contest (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 5.8
Patched Version

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