# CVE-2024-12115: Poll Maker <= 5.5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Poll Duplication

> Attackers can trick administrators into duplicating polls via forged requests, allowing unauthorized data modification in the Poll Maker plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2f8c-4h5p-8xr7

## What is CVE-2024-12115?

CVE-2024-12115 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls, published on 7 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the duplicate_poll() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to duplicate polls via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12115?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ays-Pro Poll Maker.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-12115?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12115 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12115 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls

- [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-2024-12115 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12115 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls, published on 7 Dec 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12115 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls. 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-2024-12115/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12115/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12115
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12115
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12115

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12115/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.