PT-2019-8454 · WordPress · Democracy-Poll

J.D. Grimes · Published 2019-08-20 · Updated 2019-08-22 · CVE-2017-18520

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions democracy-poll plugin versions prior to 5.4

Description The issue affects the democracy-poll plugin for WordPress, allowing for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is due to a flaw in the update l10n function within the admin/class.DemAdminInit.php file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.4, update the democracy-poll plugin to version 5.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-18520

Affected Products

Democracy-Poll

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18520 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18520 · Vendor Advisory
• https://pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/02/22/cross-site-request-forgery-csrfcross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-democracy-poll · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/democracy-poll/#developers · Note