CVE-2016-20062 PUBLISHED

Simply Poll 1.4.1 Plugin for WordPress SQL Injection

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 09.06.2026 Updated: 09.06.2026

Simply Poll 1.4.1 plugin for WordPress contains an SQL injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract database information by injecting SQL code through the 'pollid' POST parameter. Attackers can send requests to the admin-ajax.php endpoint with the 'spAjaxResults' action and malicious 'pollid' values to execute arbitrary SQL queries and read sensitive data from the WordPress database.

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.8

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	Low	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	None	Availability	None
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	Low
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Ollie Armstrong
Product	Simply Poll
Versions	Version 1.4.1 is affected

Credits

TAD GROUP finder

References

Problem Types

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') CWE