CVE-2023-0038 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00837.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Ays-pro	Survey Maker

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ays-pro:survey_maker:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-12143	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/survey-maker/tags/3.1.4/public/partials/class-survey-maker-submissions-summary-shortcode.php?rev=2839688#L311
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2a58fab-d4a3-4333-8495-e094ed85bb61

History

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2023-01-03T13:58:25.155Z

Updated: 2025-01-13T17:15:14.721Z

Reserved: 2023-01-03T13:58:20.201Z

Link: CVE-2023-0038

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:54:32.588Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-03T14:15:10.390

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:36:26.480

Link: CVE-2023-0038

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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