WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2025-9294 Modified

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.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
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
Weakness
CWE-285 — Improper Authorization
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

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

Primary and upstream sources