CVE-2024-3601

Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Enumeration

Published: May 2, 2024Updated: May 28, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-862

5.3MEDIUM

Description

The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_create_author function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract email addresses by enumerating them one character at a time.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:LConfidentiality

Low

I:NIntegrity

None

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-862

Affected Products

ays-pro

commercial

poll makerOn-premWeb App

Web & CMS Plugins / cms-core

Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image PollsOn-premWeb App

Web & CMS Plugins / wordpress-plugin

Exploitability

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References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3071296%40poll-maker&new=3071296%40poll-maker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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