CVE-2024-3600

Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Published Apr 19, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 7.2 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_maker_quick_start AJAX action in addition to insufficient escaping and sanitization in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create quizzes and inject malicious web scripts into them that execute when a user visits the page.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-32179 The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_maker_quick_start AJAX action in addition to insufficient escaping and sanitization in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create quizzes and inject malicious web scripts into them that execute when a user visits the page.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:poll_maker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-862
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Ays-pro
Ays-pro poll Maker
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:poll_maker:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Ays-pro
Ays-pro poll Maker
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Wordfence
Published
Updated
Apr 8, 2026, 5:35 PM
Reserved
Apr 10, 2024, 4:06 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 19, 2024, 3:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:44 AM