CVE-2025-49044
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was discovered in tosend.it Simple Poll WordPress plugin that allows Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49044, affects Simple Poll versions through 1.1.1. The issue was discovered by TAKERU OTSUKA and was publicly disclosed on August 14, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires no authentication to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The impact is considered low severity but could lead to stored cross-site scripting attacks (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix is available for this vulnerability. The recommended mitigation is to remove and replace the software with an alternative solution, as the plugin is considered abandoned and unlikely to receive further updates or security fixes (Patchstack).

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