CVE-2024-3601 (GCVE-0-2024-3601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-02 16:52 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:34
VLAI
Title
Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Enumeration
Summary
The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_create_author function in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract email addresses by enumerating them one character at a time.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-02 19:49 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.1.8 (semver)
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ays-pro poll_maker Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.1.8 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:poll_maker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Krzysztof Zając
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