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CVE-2024-8851: 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

medium Affects polls-cp (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

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

Package
polls-cp (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<1.0.77
Fixed in
1.0.77
Severity
medium  CVSS 5.4
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (24.8th percentile)
Published
2025-05-15
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordpolls-cp (WordPress plugin) advisories

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