CVE-2024-3601 Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Enumeration

What is CVE-2024-3601?

CVE-2024-3601 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls, published on 2 May 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 unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_create_author function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract email addresses by enumerating them one character at a time.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3601?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ays-Pro Poll Maker.

How do I fix CVE-2024-3601?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3601 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2024-3601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3601 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 High 7.6
• CVE-2021-24651 Poll Maker < 3.4.2 - Unauthenticated Time Based SQL Injection High 7.5
• 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 Poll Maker < 3.2.1 - Authenticated Blind SQL Injections High 7.2
• CVE-2023-41871 WordPress Poll Maker Plugin <= 4.7.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cp84-243q-m5wp.