CVE-2021-24442

Poll\, Survey\, Questionnaire And Voting System vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

46.9%

EPSS pct

99th

Exploited

No known

The Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system WordPress plugin before 1.5.3 did not sanitise, escape or validate the date_answers[] POST parameter before using it in a SQL statement when sending a Poll result, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL Injection attacks

Affected vendor

Wpdevart

Affected product

Poll\, Survey\, Questionnaire And Voting System

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Published

2021-07-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 46.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

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