# CVE-2024-13426: WP-Polls <= 2.77.2 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

> Unauthenticated attackers can inject SQL to achieve stored XSS, allowing malicious script execution in victim browsers.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-374j-m43w-98jg

## What is CVE-2024-13426?

CVE-2024-13426 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in gamerz WP-Polls, published on 22 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The WP-Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via COOKIE in all versions up to, and including, 2.77.2 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query.  This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries. Those queries are stored and results are not displayed to the attacker, which means they cannot be exploited to obtain any additional information about the database. However, a properly configured payload allows for the injection of malicious JavaScript resulting in Stored Cross-Site Scripting.

Weakness: CWE-89 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13426?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wp-Polls Project Wp-Polls.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-13426?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13426 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-13426 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13426 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in gamerz WP-Polls

- [CVE-2015-9352](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9352/): The wp-polls plugin before 2.72 for WordPress has SQL injection. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2016-10936](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-10936/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2022-1581](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1581/): WP-Polls < 2.76.0 - IP Validation Bypass (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2022-40130](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40130/): WordPress WP-Polls plugin <= 2.76.0 - Auth. Race Condition vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13426 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-13426 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in gamerz WP-Polls, published on 22 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13426 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: gamerz WP-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-2024-13426/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13426/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13426
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13426
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13426

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13426/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.