WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Poll Maker < 6.0.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
poll-maker
Fixed in 6.0.3

References

CVE
CVE-2025-57954
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/poll-maker/vulnerability/wordpress-poll-maker-plugin-6-0-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
6.4 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Abu Hurayra
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
082f5741-c5c2-4214-a5ec-1ae8d45a221e

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-09-22 (about 7 months ago)
Added
2025-09-26 (about 7 months ago)
Last Updated
2025-10-07 (about 7 months ago)

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