What is CVE-2024-8851?

CVE-2024-8851 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Codepeople Polls Cp, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-8851?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Codepeople Polls Cp

CVE-2024-8851

The Polls CP WordPress plugin before 1.0.77 does not sanitise and escape some of its poll settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multi site setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (17.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Codepeople Polls_cp
Unknown Polls Cp — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8851?: CVE-2024-8851 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Codepeople Polls Cp, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-8851?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.