Survey Maker – Best WordPress Survey Plugin <= 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2023-0038
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published January 3, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

The "Survey Maker – Best WordPress Survey Plugin" plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via survey answers in versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts when submitting quizzes that will execute whenever a user accesses the submissions page.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug survey-maker (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.3
Patched Version
  • 3.1.4
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