WP Voting

WP Voting has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2025; it remains unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for WP Voting has no published fix yet, which makes virtual patching the only reliable mitigation. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.

All of these findings were reported by Nguyen Xuan Chien. WP Voting is installed on roughly 50 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 3.2.1.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
6.1/ 10
Patch Coverage0%
Open

1

Fixed

0

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Most severe open issueCVSS 6.1CVE-2025-49057

WP Voting <= 1.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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Plugin Profile
Latestv1.8

WP Voting

Ko Min

Author

Ko Min

2.5(2)
50/100
Last Updated
2012-05-29 (15y ago)
Active Installs
50+
Downloads
31,502
Requires WP
3.0+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 3.2.1
Created
2011-07-07 (15y ago)

A plugin to site owner to add voting functionality to the blog posts. Using the power of the ajax, voter can have instant voting and update to top voted widget. It doesn’t matter voter is logged in or not. Public voting is done by tracking their IP address. It isn’t end here. Blog owner will have complete control over those voting feature as well as using custom vote button and vote text. Features Control voting feature via voting on/off (admin feature) Control allow or disallow post author to vote his own posts (admin feature) Control allow or disallow public voting (admin feature) Customise vote and voted text (admin feature) Customise vote and voted buttons images (admin feature) Customise alert message for non logged in users (admin feature) Voting logs for site administrator (admin feature) Sort voting logs by vote count or voted date (admin feature) Show current vote count and vote button on frontend templates Compitible with almost all of the themes. You just need to call required function from your template Total vote count widget Top voted widget Now public voting supported. Now shortcode supported. e.g. [wpvoting] Top voted posts list shortcode Features in future releases Export to CSV for admin voting logs Registered user voting logs Re-implement backend voting log list with WP_List_Table class Note-1: Kindly please rate this plugin or vote the compatibility. So I could review it and improve the quality of this plugin. Appreciate your help! Resources http://www.garyc40.com/2010/03/5-tips-for-using-ajax-in-wordpress/ http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/06/22/how-to-add-pagination-into-list-of-records-or-wordpress-plugin/ http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/07/01/how-to-design-and-style-your-wordpress-plugin-admin-panel/ http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/09/top-10-most-common-coding-mistakes-in-wordpress-plugins/ https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vote-it-up/ https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/

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