Description

The WordPress Survey & Poll – Quiz, Survey and Poll Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpsurveypoll_results' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-12528

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

Affected Products

Vendor: pantherius

Product: WordPress Survey & Poll – Quiz, Survey and Poll Plugin for WordPress

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 24.0% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-05 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51cc6247-1948-4de1-b347-c7d818400777?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-survey-and-poll/trunk/wordpress-survey-and-poll.php#L49
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-survey-and-poll/trunk/wordpress-survey-and-poll.php#L146

Timeline