CVE-2023-3575 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Quiz And Survey Master WordPress plugin before 8.1.11 does not properly sanitize and escape question titles, which could allow users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00152.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Expresstech	Quiz And Survey Master

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:expresstech:quiz_and_survey_master:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-44225	The Quiz And Survey Master WordPress plugin before 8.1.11 does not properly sanitize and escape question titles, which could allow users with the Contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6f884688-2c0d-4844-bd31-ef7085edf112
https://www.onvio.nl/nieuws/research-day-discovering-vulnerabilities-in-wordpress-plugins

History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-08-07T14:31:20.665Z

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:19:34.166Z

Reserved: 2023-07-10T09:02:10.344Z

Link: CVE-2023-3575

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:01:55.979Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-08-07T15:15:11.460

Modified: 2025-04-23T17:16:38.197

Link: CVE-2023-3575

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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