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

CVE-2024-12575Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤5.8.9Update to 5.9.0 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium5.3
CVSS
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/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:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-200 Information Exposure
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls poll-maker

  1. Affected≤ 5.8.9
  2. Patched in5.9.0

Update to 5.9.0 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 5.8.9. Version 5.9.0 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image 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 5.9.0, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to xiaoAGiao.

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.

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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Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure in 'ays_poll_get_user_information' AJAX Action
≤6.3.7Update to 6.3.8
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Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via `filterbyauthor` Parameter
≤6.0.7Update to 6.0.8
CVE-2025-12620
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.0.2Update to 6.0.3
CVE-2025-57954
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Race Condition to Multi-Vote
≤5.7.7Update to 5.7.8
CVE-2025-47545
Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection
≤5.6.5Update to 5.6.6
CVE-2025-26971

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 5.3

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

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