One of the changelog entries for a recent version of YOP Poll is “fixed XSS bug”. Looking at the changes made we found that refers to a fixed reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in code that runs on an admin page of the plugin. That possibly of that vulnerability would have been flagged by our Plugin Security Checker if the vulnerable versions of the plugin had been checked.

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