PT-2019-8455 · WordPress · Democracy-Poll

Published 2019-08-21 · Updated 2019-08-23 · CVE-2017-18521

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue concerns a CSRF problem. It can be exploited via the "wp-admin/options-general.php?page=democracy-poll&subpage=l10n" API endpoint.

Recommendations For versions prior to 5.4, update to version 5.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "wp-admin/options-general.php?page=democracy-poll&subpage=l10n" endpoint until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-18521

Affected Products

Democracy-Poll

References · 4

• 🔥 https://pluginvulnerabilities.com/2017/02/22/cross-site-request-forgery-csrfcross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability-in-democracy-poll · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18521 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18521 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/democracy-poll/#developers · Note