cve/2024/CVE-2024-8851.md

### [CVE-2024-8851](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8851)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Polls%20CP&color=blue)
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![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-79%20Cross-Site%20Scripting%20(XSS)&color=brightgreen)

### Description

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).

### POC

#### Reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/493f3360-3155-4105-9b5c-60a8605275ab/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.