Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls <= 5.5.4 — Unauthenticated HTML Injection
CVE-2024-56277Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤5.5.4Update to 5.5.5 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- 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
- Affected≤ 5.5.4
- Patched in5.5.5
Update to 5.5.5 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 5.5.4. Version 5.5.5 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
- Update to version 5.5.5, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- 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 Muhammad Zidan Ali Mansur.
The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4. This is due to the software not properly sanitizing or escaping data added to polls. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject HTML elements.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in Poll Maker by AYS – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
All 24| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure in 'ays_poll_get_user_information' AJAX Action ≤6.3.7Update to 6.3.8 | CVE-2026-8995 | |
| Medium4.9 | Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via `filterbyauthor` Parameter ≤6.0.7Update to 6.0.8 | CVE-2025-12620 | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤6.0.2Update to 6.0.3 | CVE-2025-57954 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Basic Information Exposure ≤5.8.9Update to 5.9.0 | CVE-2024-12575 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Race Condition to Multi-Vote ≤5.7.7Update to 5.7.8 | CVE-2025-47545 |
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Sensitive Information Exposure in 'ays_poll_get_user_information' AJAX Action
≤6.3.7Update to 6.3.8
- Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection via `filterbyauthor` Parameter
≤6.0.7Update to 6.0.8
- Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤6.0.2Update to 6.0.3
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Basic Information Exposure
≤5.8.9Update to 5.9.0
- Medium5.3Unauthenticated Race Condition to Multi-Vote
≤5.7.7Update to 5.7.8
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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