---
id: CVE-2025-12620
title: >-
  The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘filterbyauthor’
  parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.7 due to insufficient
  escaping on the us…
summary: >-
  The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for
  WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘filterbyauthor’
  parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.7 due to insufficient
  escaping on the us…
severity: medium
cvss: 4.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-89
published: '2025-11-13'
updated: '2026-10-07'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-07T21:10:00.200'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12620'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poll-maker/tags/6.0.7/includes/lists/class-poll-maker-polls-list-table.php#L2033
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/poll-maker/tags/6.0.7/includes/lists/class-poll-maker-polls-list-table.php#L2053
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/56e0efba-4913-4772-8a5b-5cb5c84b5d48?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00297
epssPercentile: 0.2054
ingestedAt: '2026-10-07T21:54:15.020Z'
---

## Overview

The Poll Maker – Versus Polls, Anonymous Polls, Image Polls plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to generic SQL Injection via the ‘filterbyauthor’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.7 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query.  This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.