The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ays_survey_show_results' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.9.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view all survey submissions.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

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 0.00084.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
ays-pro Survey Maker unaffected
Version Status Constraints
* affected
≤ 5.1.9.4

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No data.

Vendor Product Confidence Versions
Ays-pro Survey Maker — —
Wordpress Wordpress — —

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Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3394078/survey-maker/tags/5.1.9.5/admin/class-survey-maker-admin.php?old=3389474&old_path=survey-maker%2Ftags%2F5.1.9.4%2Fadmin%2Fclass-survey-maker-admin.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/835353e7-871d-4daf-9ed4-86321daf2366?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
History

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Ays-pro
Ays-pro survey Maker
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Ays-pro
Ays-pro survey Maker
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:45:00 +0000

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Description The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'ays_survey_show_results' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.9.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to view all survey submissions.
Title Survey Maker <= 5.1.9.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-14T16:53:33.943Z

Reserved: 2025-11-07T18:06:27.616Z

Link: CVE-2025-12891

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-14T16:53:31.088Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-13T05:16:03.007

Modified: 2025-11-14T16:42:03.187

Link: CVE-2025-12891

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-11-13T09:52:04Z

Weaknesses