Is Poll Maker by AYS safe? Known vulnerabilities and latest version

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in versions up to and including 6.3.7. This is due to insufficient access controls on the 'ays_poll_get_user_information' AJAX action, which serializes and returns the complete WP_User object — including the user_pass (bcrypt password hash), user_email, user_login, user_registered, roles, and all capabilities — without any nonce verification or capability check beyond is_user_logged_in(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve sensitive account data including their own password hash, which WordPress does not expose through any of its standard interfaces and which can be leveraged for offline password-cracking attacks.

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘filterbyauthor’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.7 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 6.0.2.

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Basic Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.8.9 via the 'ays_finish_poll' AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve admin email information which is exposed in the poll response.

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Leveraging Race Conditions.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 5.7.7.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 5.5.0.

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Blind SQL Injection.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 5.6.5.

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through < 5.5.5.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 5.5.6.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 4.7.1.

Missing Authorization vulnerability in Ays Pro Poll Maker poll-maker allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Poll Maker: from n/a through <= 4.8.0.

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the duplicate_poll() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to duplicate polls via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to time-based SQL Injection via the ‘orderby’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via poll settings in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the order_by parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.6 due to insufficient escaping on the user-supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

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.

The Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to a missing capability check on the ays_poll_maker_quick_start AJAX action in addition to insufficient escaping and sanitization in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create quizzes and inject malicious web scripts into them that execute when a user visits the page.

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Poll Maker Team Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin.This issue affects Poll Maker – Best WordPress Poll Plugin: from n/a through 4.6.2.

Unauth. Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Poll Maker Team Poll Maker plugin <= 4.7.0 versions.

The Poll Maker WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the mcount parameter found in the ~/admin/partials/settings/poll-maker-settings.php file which allows attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.2.8.