CVE-2024-9462 Cross-site scripting in Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
Administrators can inject arbitrary scripts via poll settings in this WordPress plugin, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML configurations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-9462?
CVE-2024-9462 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls, published on 26 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via poll settings in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9462?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Ays-Pro Poll Maker.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9462?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9462 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-2024-9462 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9462 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-2024-3600 Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- 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)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-99wp-7wh7-g76j.