🛡️ CVE-2023-6109 — yop-poll

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-362 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

The YOP Poll plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a race condition in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.26. This is due to improper restrictions on the add() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to place multiple votes on a single poll even when the poll is set to one vote per person.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-6109 is classified as CWE-362: Race Condition. Concurrent operations share state without proper synchronisation, so timing decides whether the result is correct.

Affected software

CVE-2023-6109 is recorded against 1 package.

  • yop-poll (fixed in 6.5.26)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 November 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com
plugins.trac.wordpress.org
www.wordfence.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-362
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-14
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
yop-poll — 6.5.26

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