Quiz And Survey Master <= 8.1.10 - Excessive Quiz Attempts

Improper Control of Interaction Frequency
CVE CVE-2023-37984
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published July 17, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher qilin_99
Description

The Quiz And Survey Master plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to exessive quiz attempts due to a missing validation checks on the ajax_submit_results() function in versions up to, and including, 8.1.10. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to bypass the set limits for the number of times a user can attempt a quiz.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug quiz-master-next (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.1.10
Patched Version
  • 8.1.11
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