SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-24442

The Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system WordPress plugin before 1.5.3 did not sanitise, escape or validate the date_answers[] POST parameter before using it in a SQL statement when sending a Poll result, allowing unauthenticated users to…

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 46.0%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 46.0%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

The Poll, Survey, Questionnaire and Voting system WordPress plugin before 1.5.3 did not sanitise, escape or validate the date_answers[] POST parameter before using it in a SQL statement when sending a Poll result, allowing unauthenticated users to perform SQL Injection attacks

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
46.00% probability · 99th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-89
Affected
wpdevart/poll\, survey\, questionnaire and voting system
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%25%50%26 October 2026: 46.00%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 46.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.