CVE-2024-3600 Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Unauthenticated attackers can inject malicious scripts into polls via missing authorization checks, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- 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-2024-3600?
CVE-2024-3600 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls, published on 19 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3600?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ays-Pro Poll Maker.
How do I fix CVE-2024-3600?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3600 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-3600 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3600 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
- CVE-2025-26971 WordPress Poll Maker <= 5.6.5 - SQL Injection vulnerability
- CVE-2021-24651 Poll Maker < 3.4.2 - Unauthenticated Time Based SQL Injection
- CVE-2021-24483 Poll Maker < 3.2.1 - Authenticated Blind SQL Injections
- CVE-2023-41871 WordPress Poll Maker Plugin <= 4.7.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2025-24577 WordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.5.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w4r6-cjx2-64gc.