CVE-2016-20062 HIGH

CVE-2016-20062: Simply Poll 1.4.1 Plugin for WordPress SQL Injection

Vendor Ollie Armstrong

Product Simply Poll

Weakness CWE-89 · SQLi

Published June 9, 2026

Last update June 9, 2026

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CVSS base score

8.8/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction None

Confidentiality —

Integrity —

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

What the vulnerability does

Description

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.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2026 CVE published

June 9, 2026 Record updated