PT-2023-15964 · WordPress · Survey Maker

Chloe Chamberland · Published 2023-01-03 · Updated 2023-01-09 · CVE-2023-0038

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Survey Maker – Best WordPress Survey Plugin versions up to, and including, 3.1.3

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via survey answers due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts when submitting quizzes, which will execute whenever a user accesses the submissions page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 3.1.3, update to a version later than 3.1.3 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the submissions page to minimize the risk of exploitation. Additionally, disabling the submission of quizzes until a patch is available can help mitigate the risk.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-0038

Affected Products

Survey Maker

References · 8

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey-maker/tags/3.1.4/public/partials/class-survey-maker-submissions-summary-shortcode.php?rev=2839688#L311 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0038 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-0038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/41196 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2a58fab-d4a3-4333-8495-e094ed85bb61?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/55800 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2a58fab-d4a3-4333-8495-e094ed85bb61 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/41189 · Telegram Post