Poll Maker Plugin up to 5.4.6 on WordPress Order_by sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in Poll Maker Plugin up to 5.4.6 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation of the argument Order_by can lead to sql injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-9475. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Poll Maker Plugin up to 5.4.6 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation of the argument Order_by with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the order_by parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-9475 since 10/03/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Survey Software

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• Poll Maker Plugin

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• 5.4.0
• 5.4.1
• 5.4.2
• 5.4.3
• 5.4.4
• 5.4.5
• 5.4.6

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