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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: polls-widget: CVE-2021-24442: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 22, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

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

Solution

polls-widget-plugin-cve-2021-24442
Title
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