CVE-2024-3601· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Wordfence

Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Email Enumeration

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.57% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 5.3 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: May 2, 2024
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.5% · 46th percentile
CWE: CWE-862

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · Wordfence: 5.3; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
ays-pro	poll maker	cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:poll_maker

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

ays-pro poll makerbefore 5.1.9

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Wordfence). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

ays-pro Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls
- up to and including 5.1.8affected · semver

Same product

ays-pro: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2025-24577WordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.5.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
39Monitor
CVE-2025-26971WordPress Poll Maker <= 5.6.5 - SQL Injection vulnerability
39Monitor
CVE-2025-47545WordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.7.7 - Race Condition Vulnerability
32Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-34013Nov 12, 2023 · WordPress Poll Maker Plugin <= 4.6.2 is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2024-3600Apr 18, 2024 · Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2024-9462Oct 25, 2024 · Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls <= 5.4.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Poll Settings
19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Krzysztof Zającfinder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-24577350 days apartWordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.5.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
39Monitor
CVE-2024-56295258 days apartWordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 5.5.6 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
26Monitor
CVE-2024-360014 days apartPoll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin <= 5.1.8 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
24Monitor
CVE-2023-50904221 days apartWordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 4.8.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
21Monitor
CVE-2023-45766245 days apartWordPress Poll Maker plugin <= 4.7.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
21Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).