Quiz And Survey Master <= 8.0.8 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Media Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-0291
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published February 15, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Julien Ahrens
Description

The Quiz And Survey Master for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the function associated with the qsm_remove_file_fd_question AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 8.0.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug quiz-master-next (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.0.8
Patched Version
  • 8.0.9
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