Survey Maker – Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire, Chat Survey, Calculation Form, Payment Forms <= 4.9.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Vulnerability Description
The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Survey fields in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Jonas Benjamin Friedli
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5e04edb6-ef37-4ea8-a734-dbdcf689ba9b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3155029/survey-maker/tags/4.9.6/includes/class-survey-maker-data.php?old=3153722&old_path=survey-maker%2Ftags%2F4.9.5%2Fincludes%2Fclass-survey-maker-data.php
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