CVE-2022-40130

WordPress WP-Polls plugin <= 2.76.0 - Auth. Race Condition vulnerability

Severity Score

3.1

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Auth. (subscriber+) Race Condition vulnerability in WP-Polls plugin <= 2.76.0 on WordPress.

Vulnerabilidad de Condición de Ejecución en el complemento WP-Polls en versiones <= 2.76.0 en WordPress.

The WP-Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Race Condition in the function vote_poll_process() in versions up to, and including, 3.3.4. This can lead to unpredictable polling result changes when certain conditions are met.

*Credits: Vulnerability discovered by Nguy Minh Tuan (Patchstack Alliance)

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-09-27 CVE Reserved
2022-10-05 CVE Published
2024-04-27 EPSS Updated
2024-09-17 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wp-polls/wordpress-wp-polls-plugin-2-76-0-race-condition-vulnerability?_s_id=cve	Third Party Advisory
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-polls/#developers	Release Notes

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Wp-polls Project Search vendor "Wp-polls Project"		Wp-polls Search vendor "Wp-polls Project" for product "Wp-polls"				< 2.77.0 Search vendor "Wp-polls Project" for product "Wp-polls" and version " < 2.77.0"		wordpress		Affected