CVE-2024-8851: polls cp vulnerability

The Polls CP WordPress plugin before 1.0.77 does not sanitise and escape some of its poll settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multi site setup).
CVE-2024-8851CVSS 5.4CMS

CVE-2024-8851: polls cp vulnerability

The Polls CP WordPress plugin before 1.0.77 does not sanitise and escape some of its poll settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multi site setup).

CVSS
5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
16.91%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
polls cp

What is known

The Polls CP WordPress plugin before 1.0.77 does not sanitise and escape some of its poll settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multi site setup).

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