Survey Maker: Cross-site scripting
Survey Maker 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
- Survey Maker
- Plugin slug
survey-maker- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 05, 2023
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Jun 05, 2023 and is one of 23 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Survey Maker 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 Survey Maker WordPress plugin before 3.4.7 does not escape some parameters before outputting them back in attributes, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N