CVE-2016-20062 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2016-20062

Simply Poll 1.4.1 Plugin for WordPress SQL Injection

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • TAD GROUP

Affected Vendor

Ollie Armstrong

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Affected Software

Simply Poll
Vulnerable Versions:
1.4.1

Timeline

Official Publish: June 9th, 2026
Last Modified: June 9th, 2026
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)