Stored cross-site scripting via cookie-driven SQL injection
Published Jan 22, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026
SQL injection in Lester Chan WP-Polls 2.77.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to plant stored JavaScript through a crafted cookie. The vote path incorporates a cookie-derived voter value into an inadequately prepared SQL query, and polls-logs.php later renders the stored value without safe output encoding. No authentication is required, but the injected query is blind; practical impact is stored script execution when an administrator views poll logs.
Summary
What happened
SQL injection in Lester Chan WP-Polls 2.77.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to plant stored JavaScript through a crafted cookie. The vote path incorporates a cookie-derived voter value into an inadequately prepared SQL query, and polls-logs.php later renders the stored value without safe output encoding. No authentication is required, but the injected query is blind; practical impact is stored script execution when an administrator views poll logs.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-13426
- Published
- Jan 22, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Vendor
- Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
- Product
- WP-Polls
- Classifications
- CWE-89, T1059.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jan 22, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 8, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=2.77.2
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