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

2025-01-03 00:00

Muhammad Zidan Ali Mansur

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 5.5.5

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

Affected Version<= 5.5.4

CVSS5.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-56277

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Vulnerability Overview

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.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 5.5.5, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-116 (Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output) The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56277 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e36056bf-4e90-4c5e-8c6a-ab3ae7ba426f

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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