Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress <= 7.3.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2021-36865
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published September 29, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ngo Van Thien
Description

The Quiz And Survey Master plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insecure direct object reference in versions up to, and including, 7.3.4. This is due to insufficient validation on the key controlling a quiz's id. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author-level capabilities and above to change arbitrary quiz content.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug quiz-master-next (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.3.4
Patched Version
  • 7.3.5
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