CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-0291
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-06-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Quiz And Survey Master for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the function associated with the qsm_remove_file_fd_question AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 8.0.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary media files.
Affected configurations
• expresstech quiz and survey master (<= 8.0.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171011/wpqsm808-xsrf.txt Not Applicable, VDB Entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2834471/quiz-master-next Patch
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/quiz-master-next/ Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/68110321-db1a-4634-98cd-0afd3ec933b8?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171011/wpqsm808-xsrf.txt Not Applicable, VDB Entry
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2834471/quiz-master-next Patch
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/quiz-master-next/ Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/68110321-db1a-4634-98cd-0afd3ec933b8?source=cve Third Party Advisory