CVE-2024-56277

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

2025-01-03 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 5.5.5
Affected Plugin: Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
Affected Version: <= 5.5.4
CVSS: 5.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
CVE: CVE-2024-56277

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At a glance

CVE-2024-56277 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in the Poll Maker by AYS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.5.4. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 5.5.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Muhammad Zidan Ali Mansur.

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

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user.

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.

Remediation

Update to version 5.5.5, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Poll Maker by AYS 5.5.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

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

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls

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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