Polls CP Plugin up to 1.0.76 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in Polls CP Plugin up to 1.0.76 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-8854. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Polls CP Plugin up to 1.0.76 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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).

The weakness was released by Bob Matyas. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-8854 since 09/13/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.0.77 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Polls CP Plugin

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16
• 1.0.17
• 1.0.18
• 1.0.19
• 1.0.20
• 1.0.21
• 1.0.22
• 1.0.23
• 1.0.24
• 1.0.25
• 1.0.26
• 1.0.27
• 1.0.28
• 1.0.29
• 1.0.30
• 1.0.31
• 1.0.32
• 1.0.33
• 1.0.34
• 1.0.35
• 1.0.36
• 1.0.37
• 1.0.38
• 1.0.39
• 1.0.40
• 1.0.41
• 1.0.42
• 1.0.43
• 1.0.44
• 1.0.45
• 1.0.46
• 1.0.47
• 1.0.48
• 1.0.49
• 1.0.50
• 1.0.51
• 1.0.52
• 1.0.53
• 1.0.54
• 1.0.55
• 1.0.56
• 1.0.57
• 1.0.58
• 1.0.59
• 1.0.60
• 1.0.61
• 1.0.62
• 1.0.63
• 1.0.64
• 1.0.65
• 1.0.66
• 1.0.67
• 1.0.68
• 1.0.69
• 1.0.70
• 1.0.71
• 1.0.72
• 1.0.73
• 1.0.74
• 1.0.75
• 1.0.76

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