CVE-2023-0038

7.2 HIGH

Published: January 03, 2023 Modified: April 08, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey-maker/tags/3.1.4/public/partials/class-survey-maker-submissions-summary-shortcode.php?rev=2839688#L311

Source: security@wordfence.com

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2a58fab-d4a3-4333-8495-e094ed85bb61?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey-maker/tags/3.1.4/public/partials/class-survey-maker-submissions-summary-shortcode.php?rev=2839688#L311

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2a58fab-d4a3-4333-8495-e094ed85bb61

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

4 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

7.2 / 10.0

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

Affected Vendors

ays-pro

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