CVE•Published 2026-06-09•Modified 2026-07-21•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2016-20062

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

8.2

HIGH

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

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 81% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-89Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

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.

Timeline

Published 2026-06-09

Modified 2026-07-21

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2016-20062

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

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CVE-2016-20062