# CVE-2022-1456: Poll Maker < 4.0.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the Poll Maker plugin, potentially compromising other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 May 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qf4c-h9q9-5mc4

## What is CVE-2022-1456?

CVE-2022-1456 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Poll Maker, published on 30 May 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Poll Maker WordPress plugin before 4.0.2 does not sanitise and escape some settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Store Cross-Site Scripting attack even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1456?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ays-Pro Poll Maker.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-1456?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-1456 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-1456 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1456 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Poll Maker

- [CVE-2025-26971](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26971/): WordPress Poll Maker <= 5.6.5 - SQL Injection vulnerability (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2021-24651](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24651/): Poll Maker < 3.4.2 - Unauthenticated Time Based SQL Injection (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-3600](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3600/): Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2021-24483](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24483/): Poll Maker < 3.2.1 - Authenticated Blind SQL Injections (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2023-41871](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-41871/): WordPress Poll Maker Plugin <= 4.7.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (high 7.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-1456 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-1456 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Poll Maker, published on 30 May 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1456 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Poll Maker. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1456/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1456/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1456
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1456
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-1456

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1456/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.