Stored Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress Survey & Poll Plugin
CVE-2024-12528

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WordPress Survey & Poll – Quiz, Survey And Poll Plugin For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 January 2025

Summary

The WordPress Survey & Poll Plugin suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability through the 'wpsurveypoll_results' shortcode, affecting all versions up to and including 1.7.5. This flaw is due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access can exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. When these pages are accessed by users, the scripts execute, potentially leading to unauthorized actions and data compromise.

Affected Version(s)

WordPress Survey & Poll – Quiz, Survey and Poll Plugin for WordPress * <= 1.7.5

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-survey-and-...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-survey-and-...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

muhammad yudha
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