Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin: Cross-site scripting
Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.
- Component
- Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin
- Plugin slug
quiz-and-survey-master- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 20, 2021
This CVE was published Jun 20, 2021 and is one of 17 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin WordPress plugin before 7.1.18 did not sanitise or escape its result_id parameter when displaying an existing quiz result page, leading to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow for privilege escalation by inducing a logged in admin to open a malicious link
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N