CVE-2024-8851

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.4) in codepeople polls cp. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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).

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 24% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2025-05-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

codepeople:polls_cp

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/493f3360-3155-4105-9b5c-60a8605275ab/

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