Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker: A security weakness
Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker
- Plugin slug
quiz-master-next- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 06, 2026
This CVE was published Jan 06, 2026 and is one of 43 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) – Easy Quiz and Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the qsm_dashboard_delete_result function in all versions up to, and including, 10.3.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete quiz results.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N