CVE-2024-12575

Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls <= 5.8.9 - Unauthenticated Basic Information Exposure

2025-08-15 00:00
xiaoAGiao

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 5.9.0
Affected Plugin
Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
Affected Version
<= 5.8.9
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE
CVE-2024-12575
View all Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2024-12575 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Poll Maker by AYS WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 5.8.9. 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 5.9.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2025, reported by xiaoAGiao.

Vulnerability Overview

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Basic Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9 via the 'ays_finish_poll' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve admin email information which is exposed in the poll response.

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Poll Maker by AYS <= 5.8.9 carries this weakness at ays_finish_poll, and reaching it takes no account at all. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Poll Maker by AYS the fix is 5.9.0: builds <= 5.8.9 are affected, anything from 5.9.0 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 5.9.0, 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 5.9.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12575https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3674cfb8-6372-4309-a9de-e6ef7c0b3836https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12575

Related records

Vulnerability data © Defiant, Inc., provided under the Wordfence Intelligence T&C