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.
Published: 2024-04-19
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:15:00 +0000

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'}


Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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

Wed, 28 May 2025 19:00:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Ays-pro Poll Maker
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:35:13.854Z

Reserved: 2024-04-10T16:06:43.129Z

Link: CVE-2024-3600

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:12:08.181Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-04-19T03:15:06.300

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:21:23.757

Link: CVE-2024-3600

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