CVE-2024-24873 WordPress Polls CP plugin <= 1.0.71 - Polls Limitation Bypass vulnerability
Medium 5.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-24873 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2024-24873 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CodePeople CP Polls, published on 17 May 2024. 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-2024-24873 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: CodePeople CP 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-2024-24873/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24873/index.md)
Attackers can bypass polling limits to flood the system, causing denial of service in WordPress sites using the CP Polls plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-24873?
CVE-2024-24873 is a medium-severity vulnerability in CodePeople CP Polls, published on 17 May 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
: Improper Control of Interaction Frequency vulnerability in CodePeople CP Polls allows Flooding.This issue affects CP Polls: from n/a through 1.0.71.
Weakness: CWE-799
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24873?
How do I fix CVE-2024-24873?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-24873 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-24873 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24873 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2j2w-gm6q-cv65.