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

2024-04-18 00:00

Krzysztof Zając

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.1.9

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

Affected Version<= 5.1.8

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-3601

View all Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

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.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.1.9, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3601 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fc0505a1-c7c4-4cf1-97cd-123a4dddcea3

CVSS Vector

5.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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