Vulnerability · Published May 15, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2024-8851Polls CP <= 1.0.75 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Polls CP from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	Polls CP	0 – before 1.0.77

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/493f3360-3155-4105-9b5c-60a8605275ab/ exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description