High

Jenkins Poll SCM Plugin vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery

  • Disclosed: 17.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:22

Jenkins Poll SCM Plugin was not requiring requests to its API be sent via POST, thereby opening itself to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. This allowed attackers to initiate polling of projects with a known name. While Jenkins in general does not consider polling to be a protection-worthy action as it's similar to cache invalidation, the plugin specifically adds a permission to be able to use this functionality, and this issue undermines that permission. This functionality now is only available via POST.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.jenkins-ci.plugins:pollscm < 1.3.1 1.3.1

References

CVSS score 8.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-352
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:pollscm
Disclosed
17.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 11:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-fv3c-6cw7-2qcq - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.jenkins-ci.plugins:pollscm

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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