WP Voting Contest Lite

WP Voting Contest Lite has 3 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, reported between 2022 and 2025; 1 is fixed and 2 remain unpatched as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 5.3, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10. 2025 was the busiest year with 2 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 2 of the records (67%). Other recurring categories include Missing Authorization.

1 of the records (33%) have a vendor fix, while 2 remain unpatched. The oldest unresolved one dates back to 2025.

3 independent researchers contributed these findings, one record each. WP Voting Contest Lite is installed on roughly 400 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

5.3/ 10

Patch Coverage33%

Open

Fixed

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Most severe open issueCVSS 5.3CVE-2025-60086

Voting Contest <= 5.8 - Missing Authorization

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Vulnerability Records

3 records


2025-08-21 00:00	Voting Contest <= 5.8 - Missing Authorization WP Voting Contest Lite <= 5.8	`CVE-2025-60086`	5.3 Medium	theviper17y	No
2025-06-19 00:00	WP Voting Contest <= 5.8 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting WP Voting Contest Lite <= 5.8	`CVE-2025-50017`	4.4 Medium	greenhats	No
2022-02-16 00:00	WP Voting Contest < 3.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting WP Voting Contest Lite < 3.0	`CVE-2022-0321`	6.1 Medium	Brandon James Roldan (tomorrowisnew)	Yes

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Latestv6.0

WP Voting Contest Lite

Author

Matt

3.1(15)

62/100

Last Updated

2026-07-31 (1mo ago)

Active Installs

400+

Downloads

32,496

Requires WP

5.3.0+

Requires PHP

8.2+

Tested up to

WP 7.0.4

Created

2018-06-14 (8y ago)

Easy to use voting contest plugin for WordPress. Simply let users vote photos/images in your Contests. Installing and activating this plugin will place a vote button and a vote count below each photo of all contestants images using the [showcontestants id=’category id’] shortcode. Note: Only logged in users can vote in Lite version! PRO VERSION The all-in-one WordPress Contest plugin. Start an Audio Contest, Video Contest, Photo Contest, or Essay Contest using a single plugin. Online Demo You can try out the Online demonstration to see how the plugin works. To login, go to the Demo dashboard and login with credentials displayed.

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