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WP-Polls <= 2.75.6 — IP Validation Bypass

CVE-2022-1581Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.75.6Update to 2.76.0 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP-Polls wp-polls

  1. Affected≤ 2.75.6
  2. Patched in2.76.0

Update to 2.76.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.75.6. Version 2.76.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP-Polls.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.76.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP-Polls to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Daniel Ruf.

The WP-Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to IP Validation Bypass in versions up to, and including, 2.75.6. This is due to the plugin prioritizing easier to spoof IP detection mechanisms. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass IP-based limitations to polling.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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Medium5.4Unauthenticated SQL Injection to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.77.2Update to 2.77.3
CVE-2024-13426
Medium4.3Race Condition
≤2.76.0Update to 2.77.0
CVE-2022-40130
Critical9.8SQL Injection
≤2.71Update to 2.72
CVE-2015-9352
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
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CVE-2016-10936

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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