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WP-Polls <= 2.76.0 — Race Condition

CVE-2022-40130Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.76.0Update to 2.77.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP-Polls wp-polls

  1. Affected≤ 2.76.0
  2. Patched in2.77.0

Update to 2.77.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.76.0. Version 2.77.0 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.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.77.0, 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 Nguy Minh Tuan.

The WP-Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Race Condition in the function vote_poll_process() in versions up to, and including, 3.3.4. This can lead to unpredictable polling result changes when certain conditions are met.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in WP-Polls

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.77.3Update to 3.0.0
CVE-2025-68081
Medium5.4Unauthenticated SQL Injection to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.77.2Update to 2.77.3
CVE-2024-13426
Medium6.5IP Validation Bypass
≤2.75.6Update to 2.76.0
CVE-2022-1581
Critical9.8SQL Injection
≤2.71Update to 2.72
CVE-2015-9352
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.73Update to 2.73.1
CVE-2016-10936

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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