vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: poll-maker: CVE-2022-1456: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 4, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Poll Maker WordPress plugin before 4.0.2 does not sanitise and escape some settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Store Cross-Site Scripting attack even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Solution

poll-maker-plugin-cve-2022-1456
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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