# CVE-2024-56295: WordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.5.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability

> Attackers can bypass access controls in the Poll Maker plugin to perform unauthorized actions, requiring a plugin update.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2p97-mrrh-vgxm

## What is CVE-2024-56295?

CVE-2024-56295 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker, published on 15 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 5.5.6.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56295?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ays-Pro Poll Maker.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56295?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-56295 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-56295 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Ays Pro Poll Maker

- [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-2024-56295 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-56295 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker, published on 15 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-2024-56295 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Ays Pro Poll Maker. 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-2024-56295/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56295/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56295
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56295
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56295

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56295/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.