Poll Maker <= 5.7.7 - Unauthenticated Race Condition to Multi-Vote

2025-05-07 00:00

Ibrahim Mohammad

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.7.8

Affected PluginPoll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls

Affected Version<= 5.7.7

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2025-47545

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Vulnerability Overview

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a Race Condition in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.7. This is due to the plugin not properly restricting a user's ability to fill out a poll multiple times.. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to fill out a poll multiple times.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.7.8, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')) The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-47545 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/94aca289-e242-4b0c-9bd8-cc77b1d26b34

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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