Quiz and Survey Master plugin vulnerable to Stored XSS attacks
CVE-2024-6879

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Quiz And Survey Master (qsm)
Vendor
CVE Published:
26 August 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) WordPress plugin before 9.1.1 fails to validate and escape certain Quiz fields before displaying them on a page or post where the Quiz is embedded, which could allows contributor and above roles to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Affected Version(s)

Quiz and Survey Master (QSM) 0 < 9.1.1

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-6879 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4da0b318-03e7-409d-9b02-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Bereket Miheret
WPScan
.